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...work with the Pakistani government during these troubled times. Diplomatic intimidation and flexing of military muscle will serve no productive end. Furthermore, Delhi must collaborate and provide the Pakistani authorities with credible and specific evidence if it expects any significant response. Peace talks, trade, and cultural exchange must remain open between the two nations. Although general elections are coming up in May, the Indian government should look beyond its immediate political ambitions and work towards a sustainable peace in South Asia. And above all other considerations, both sides must reaffirm their desire to work towards a sustainable solution...
...there is a Church of What’s Happening Now, Paul Chan and Tina Fey can be its anti-priests. At the start of every mass they’ll stand up, give a “hey,” and then open the floor for sardonic stories and masturbation jokes. Perhaps they’ll have prepared a video presentation, in which a family of young hermaphrodites skips around an Elysian paradise shouting “cat anus” and winking at the camera. Laughter will abound. Everyone over 40 will feel uncomfortable...
...work in video. Culture curmudgeon Theodor Adorno wrote that the consequences of television “will be quite enormous and promise to intensify the impoverishment of aesthetic matter so drastically, that by tomorrow the thinly veiled identity of all industrial culture products can come triumphantly out into the open.” Yup, that sounds about right, except it’s Chan and Fey’s triumph, not the industry’s. And industry is still trying to figure out what happened...
...longer Blagojevich remained as governor, the more likely he would name someone to replace Obama in exchange for a bribe. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant, as Justice Brandeis said," explained Robert Litt, who served in the Justice Department under Bill Clinton. "By bringing this all out into the open, Fitzgerald is making the assumption that nobody would dare cut a deal with Blagojevich now, and he himself will be deterred from making one. And if he is stripped of his power to make the appointment, all the better...
Still, many observers say Jackson's public explanation was evasive, allowing him to not contradict the federal complaint and still leave open the possibility that an associate of his may have independently approached Blagojevich about essentially paying for Jackson's appointment. "I wouldn't put it past someone to be purporting to represent Jesse without authority," Jackson's lawyer James Montgomery Jr. told the Chicago Tribune. Another explanation that could exonerate Jackson: Blagojevich may have invoked Jackson's name as a speculative attempt to solicit payment. That scenario is what Jesse Jackson Sr. believes, telling ABC News that...