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...Second, imperialism pollutes the imperial nation. I grew up in Liverpool when it was one of the British Empire's great ports. Its docks were full of ships laden with palm oil and sugarcane, with liners bound for Cape Town and Colombo. You might think, to read some of imperialism's apologists, that such a familiarity with exotic climes would have bred a reverence for foreign cultures, as if every child of empire wanted to do something noble, like translate the Bhagavad Gita or teach for a year in Sierra Leone. Sadly, not so. In Britain, the imperialist adventure produced...
From flying President Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa to explore the problems of AIDS and economic development facing the region, to hosting the world’s elite minds at his lavish homes in New York, Palm Beach, New Mexico and his private island hideaway, to funding outreach programs to curb the spread of Cholera in Bangladesh, it seems Epstein lets his curiosities guide...
...Council on February 5. But so far, little evidence has emerged to back up some of his allegations. Powell had warned, for example, that the Iraqi military had, last November, dispersed rocket launchers and warheads containing biological weapons to various locations in Western Iraq, where they were hidden in palm groves and moved every four weeks to avoid detection. None of these have yet been found. Nor have checks of some of the other locations mentioned by Powell in his presentation yet divulged any evidence. Other administration officials had said, prior to the U.S. advance on Baghdad, that Special Republican...
Launching April 15 with a flight from New York City to West Palm Beach, Fla., Song plans by October to equip each of its Boeing 757s with an impressive array of high-tech amenities, starting with an MP3 jukebox that lets passengers create customized playlists culled from hundreds of music albums. Using touch-screen monitors mounted on the back of each seat, travelers will also be able to surf 24 channels of live satellite TV, challenge their seatmates to multiplayer video games from Nintendo and map the airplane's exact location--zooming in to street-level detail on the terrain...
...lingo is no more: the two little ducks (22) have flown the coop and the two fat ladies (88) have walked off on their legs eleven (11). But innovation has its limits: an attempt to replace the daubers and paper cards with a small contraption the size of a Palm Pilot bombed. If the machine's power failed mid-game, all would be lost - and then there might just be a punch-up. Speak to the younger players, though, and it's clear the real draw is not the glitz but the cash. Winnings can range from...