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...Obama campaign has learned, it's not easy. This week Wesley Clark, the NATO Supreme Commander under President Bill Clinton, became the latest in a series of Obama supporters to bungle the argument when he told CBS's Face the Nation, "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be President...
...costs $100, to which the man replies, no, it's $10. Danny says he'll take it for free, and the man agrees, asking instead for a small coffee. Danny obliges. Upon returning to our table, Danny reports that the man's name is Jet (like a plane, Jet had explained...
...McEwan's comments keep alive a fracas that began two years ago when Amis, author of Money and Time's Arrow, started publishing a number of essays on Islamic terrorism, which were collected earlier this year in the book The Second Plane. In his writings, he described moderate Islam as "supine and inaudible" in the face of what he terms "Islamism" - a radicalized, fundamental branch of the religion he feels has come to dominate the Muslim world. His observations were often made in the broadest of strokes. He wrote, for instance, that "the impulse towards rational inquiry...
...Second Plane was trashed by critics, but Amis had already taken his hits in the news pages of the national papers. His primary nemesis was literary theorist Terry Eagleton, who likened some of Amis' statements to "the ramblings of a British National Party thug." comments that made headlines in the Sunday Times. The Guardian ran a feature under the headline "Martin Amis and the New Racism...
Congressional staffer voltaire Mahasol was trying to ignore the crowd outside his window in downtown Zamboanga in the far south of the Philippines. Mainly old women and young children, they were waiting for a plane at the Edwin Andrews Air Base across the road, a free flight on the transport being one of the perks for relatives of military personnel...