Word: pacificism
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On the return drive to his home in San Jose, he stopped at a scenic lookout overlooking the Pacific Ocean near Carmel.
Besides adding up to a glorious, affecting ambience, every track more than impresses on its own. “KC Accidental” is a barrage of intensive drum and guitar rhythms interspersed with thoughtful violin. “Pacific Theme” brilliantly infuses a simple beach-worthy melody...
Rohan Gunaratna, author of an admired study of al-Qaeda, goes further. Mohammed's arrest, he thinks, has "cut al-Qaeda's operational ability by 50% at least in the next one to two years." Gunaratna's judgment is based on Mohammed's experience and his ruthlessness. Mohammed has been...
DIED. LUIS MARDEN, 90, genteel, globe-trotting explorer and photojournalist for National Geographic whose expeditions, which often involved disappearing for months at a time, produced numerous gems of reportage; in Arlington, Va. Marden arrived at the magazine in 1934 at 21, and over the next 64 years he retraced the...
At the end of our first week in California, my wife Meredith and I went to dinner in Santa Monica. It was a moonlit night. Afterward, we walked out along the beach, and Meredith kicked off her shoes. Wading in the Pacific Ocean was so alien to our environment when...