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Radio stations across the country got a little surprise in the mail last week: just-burned plain white compact discs on which were scrawled, Let's Roll and NEIL YOUNG. Yes, the Neil Young, muttonchopped crooner of protest hymns, who, while recording his new album, asked his manager to roll out Roll, his ode to the hijacked passengers of United Airlines Flight 93. Young was inspired by reading an article about Todd Beamer, 32, who stormed the cockpit--but not before signaling his fellow rebels with his now famous phrase, "Let's roll." The song is "a powerful funk-rock...
...Even Britain, which has loyally stood by the U.S. throughout its often lonely battle against Iraq, has no appetite for a new Gulf War. Foreign minister Jack Straw, in an interview with the Independent, makes London's skepticism plain: "I have seen no evidence to support any link (between Iraq and the 11 September attacks). On the general issue of military action, it is only ever contemplated on the basis of very good evidence pointing to that necessity and after a very careful conclusion that military action is the only possible option. On that basis, the only theatre in which...
Just west of the A-la Shan Plain, some 700 km from Hohhot, the Helan Shan range rises to 3,600 m, and the landscape suddenly blooms with a stunning array of alpine trees, grasses and flowers?an almost overwhelming riot of color for eyes accustomed to the dun of the desert. A new Buddhist temple nestles just below the summit. The Tibetan-style structure, painted in dazzling primary colors, was built to replace the previous temple, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution...
...objects in the course of my research for the book,” Ulrich said in an e-mail. “The ones I chose all raised larger questions central to my project—usually questions about boundaries, boundaries between Indians and colonists, rural and urban, plain work and fancy work, or commercial and homemade...
Trying to suck more from an income-uncertain consumer through appeals to their patriotic side is just plain wrong. Still, ethics have not stopped many companies from jumping on the patriotism bandwagon. Most notably and perhaps least surprisingly, airlines were among the first to equate buying their products with defending the American way. Car companies (i.e. General Motors’ “Keep America Rolling” ad campaign) and fashion companies (i.e. Polo’s montages of very attractive models with highly patriotic music in the background) followed suit immediately...