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...coming into a Western culture from a non-Western one, Ono answered that she felt twice removed, and that it was not easy to deal with the criticism of the media and public. She first jokingly remarked, “Well...I was one of two people responsible for Pearl Harbor,” alluding to her unique place in international pop culture as the woman accused of breaking up the Beatles. At the same time, Ono said, being an outsider “can teach insiders” a lot about themselves...
...panels, McCain and Lieberman agreed, would be formed in the spirit of the Warren Commission, which investigated President Kennedy?s assassination, and the Roberts Commission, which scrutinized the intelligence failure that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...
...evidenced by their four covers throughout their 17-song set. Most significant were Bob Marley’s “Lively Up Yourself” and Led Zepplin’s “D’yer Mak’er.” Also covered were Pearl Jam’s “Black” and the somewhat incongruous Simon & Garfunkel’s “59th Street Bridge Song (Feeling Groovy...
...Taliban begins. Bin Laden's foot soldiers regularly slip through the walled enclaves and jostling bazaars to recruit jihadis or send out instructions. Taliban fighters float through to spy and resupply. Every Afghan faction has its representative in some dim house. Intelligence agents linger in the lobby of the Pearl Continental Hotel, where the phones are tapped and drivers let fall scraps of information. Places like this are where the operatives who can pin a real-time target on bin Laden must be recruited or bought or blackmailed. But the terrorists have their agents here too, looking for those...
...Doris Kearns Goodwin's essay comparing the World Trade Center tragedy with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [ESSAY, Sept. 24], she wrote that the terrorists "targeted ordinary civilians...working in their offices, walking on the streets." She might have noted that the U.S. targeted and killed immense numbers of civilians when we used atom bombs on two Japanese cities at the end of World War II. In the midst of our grief and outrage, Americans need to examine our conscience and perhaps thereby temper the magnitude of the U.S. response with the humane values of justice, proportion and compassion...