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...arsenal of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons following the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration changed its tune. No longer were weapons of mass destruction (WMD) the causus belli. Instead, Iraq had been invaded with “regime change”—the violent overthrow of Saddam’s Ba’athist dictatorship—as the goal. Critics scoffed at the time at ex post facto change of objective, but now, just over two years after President Bush announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq...
...glowing biographical sketch of former Secretary of State George C. Marshall that is only very loosely tied to the big three. Another chapter entitled “Brumidi’s Frescoes and Film Noir” seems similarly detached. Constantino Brumidi was an Italian artist who attempted to overthrow the pope in the early 1850s. He went into exile in the United States and designed patriotic murals at the Capitol—using a “real fresco” technique “in which paint is applied to [a] wet surface.” What relevance...
...might, the Reagan Administration cannot seem to avoid controversy in its espousal of the Nicaraguan rebels who are seeking to overthrow their country's Sandinista government. Last week the White House was stuck with two new varieties of contra fuss. In the first case, a group of American citizens was kidnaped by the rebels. In the second, the White House had to come to grips with revelations that it has sailed close to the edges of a congressional ban on direct military aid to the insurgents. The Administration's controversial move was assigning a member of the National Security Council...
From 8 to 10 p.m. the stand-up comedians of the Comedy Studio and their modest audience form, as founder and emcee Rick Jenkins jokes, the only assembly gathered in an attic in Cambridge “not planning the overthrow of the government.” Instead, the comics are ousting the former static state of comedy and offering new and experimental material for the considerations of their small but sophisticated audience...
French is sure that feminism is the first opponent of patriarchy that cannot be co-opted or assimilated. "Feminism," she writes, "is in a state I call blessed: its ends and its means are identical." How feminism will overthrow patriarchy goes unexplained, though she believes it requires the replacement of power with pleasure. This is not the narrow, selfish pleasure of patriarchy, but "a gratified response to quality" that will somehow blossom into compassion and community...