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...Karl Rove asked Hollywood to produce a film paying tribute to post-9/11 American heroism and what came back was a film called The Spirit of America, which was all clips of old movies showcasing old American film heroes in which the Westerns were prominent examples, and in particular John Wayne in The Searchers. So we kept returning to this Cowboy and Indian mythology, and I wanted to understand why. It didn't seem like a reaction to the actual threat which was coming from engineering students in jumbo jets, not Indians on the Great Plains...
...White House and the Republican members of Congress, however, warn that this abstract resolution will have no tangible effects beyond alienating America’s relationship with a key ally in the war on terror. In particular, they are worried about the United States military’s mission in Iraq, in which neighboring Turkey has been a critical ally. It seems there is some legitimacy to these claims, as Turkish General Yasar Buyukanit has warned that his country’s “military relations with the United States can never be the same...
...living tradition – in Widener and Houghton and our 88 other libraries, in the Fogg and the Peabody, in our departments of classics, of history and of literature. We are uncomfortable with efforts to justify these endeavors by defining them as instrumental, as measurably useful to particular contemporary needs. Instead we pursue them in part “for their own sake,” because they define what has over centuries made us human, not because they can enhance our global competitiveness...
...Today is not about particular programs, or about a list of specific priorities or goals,” she said in February. “I have many, many people to talk with, much more to learn, and much thinking to do, before that day comes...
...matter most. As we learned after Hurricane Katrina, the only thing more destructive than storm surges are distrustful, territorial and paranoid bureaucrats. "The last thing you want to see at the scene of a disaster are people exchanging business cards," one emergency preparedness expert once told me. And this particular simulation is unique in that, unlike the hundreds of drills that happen all year round, it involves senior officials (hence the name, TOPOFF, which is short for "Top Officials.") Elected politicians from the city, state and federal level will have to talk to one another and make hard decisions with...