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...swagger isn't merely a consequence of his religious faith. He has long disdained the tortured moral relativism he first encountered at Yale. He doesn't come from the most introspective of families. And he has recently found an intellectual home in the secular evangelism of the neoconservatives, who posit a stark world of American good and authoritarian evil. But George W. Bush's faith offers no speed bumps on the road to Baghdad; it does not give him pause or force him to reflect. It is a source of comfort and strength but not of wisdom...
...swagger isn't merely a consequence of his religious faith. He has long disdained the tortured moral relativism he first encountered at Yale. He doesn't come from the most introspective of families. And he has recently found an intellectual home in the secular evangelism of the neoconservatives, who posit a stark world of American good and authoritarian evil. But George W. Bush's faith offers no speed bumps on the road to Baghdad; it does not give him pause or force him to reflect. It is a source of comfort and strength but not of wisdom...
...West, citizens of Asia's supercities and rural communities seem to vent their anger back at Uncle Sam, not at the extremist groups responsible. Why? Because the U.S. is still seen as a bully. When the U.S. seizes a North Korean ship delivering missiles to Yemen, many Asians posit another act of American imperialism. "It looks like America is still trying to conquer the world," sighs Nguyen Son Hai, a 23-year-old engineering student in Hanoi...
...life. How? Last year I wrote that because of post-9/11 sensitivities, "one doubts that the second season might involve...a nuclear bomb in New York City." I'm proud to say I was correct. The second season involves a nuclear bomb threat in Los Angeles. "Once you posit that the show is set in the world of antiterrorism," says executive producer Robert Cochran, "you can't shy away from the things that people are afraid of. It'd be like a cop show with no murders." (Also, 24 has gutsily kept its real-time format, which Fox feared...
...this is actually an acronym for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts-Los Angeles and is the British equivalent of AMPAS (American Motion Picture Arts & Sciences). The L.A. chapter consists of members of the British film industry in self-imposed exile on the West Coast. (Some wags posit that the British contingent in Hollywood is the British film industry in its entirety...