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...relied heavily on the shared liberal assumptions of her listeners to persuade them that individual honor in a decrepit industry is worth anything. (Besides, she's been beating that same dead horse for years). Her talk boiled down to a celebration of herself. As a self-styled grand protector of the true, heart-felt way of seeing movies, Kael urged her audience to protect their "individual responses" to films; she said that critics should be read as interference-runners for filmgoers, helping audiences to better appreciate "new kinds of films" even if they appear without due warning...
When the Iraq war began, the French Foreign Minister refused a reporter's question as to which side he wanted to win. This was not a mere expression of pique. When the existential enemy was Nazism or communism, the world rallied to the American protector. But Arab-Islamic radicalism is different. Its hatreds are wide, but its strategic focus is America. Its monument is ground zero. Ground zero is not in Paris...
...When the Iraq war began, the French Foreign Minister refused a reporter's question as to which side he wanted to win. This was not a mere expression of pique. When the existential enemy was Nazism or communism, the world rallied to the American protector. But Arab-Islamic radicalism is different. Its hatreds are wide, but its strategic focus is America. Its monument is ground zero. Ground zero is not in Paris...
...officials say they dispatched 4,700 extra security forces there last week after foiling a plot that included plans to set off car bombs next to the Grand Mosque. Such attacks aim to undermine the authority of the Saudi royal family, whose legitimacy derives from its role as the protector of Islam's holiest shrines. "The government sees this as a direct threat to the regime and to stability, and they are confronting it as such," says Gary Grappo, U.S. charge d'affaires in Riyadh...
...toilet paper. She thought it would be good business experience and steady, safe. "They told me I'd never probably see the frontline area," she says. It was at Fort Bliss that Lynch found her soul mates: her boyfriend Ruben Contreras and her roommate Lori Piestewa, best friend and protector. Lori was a Hopi Indian, the single mother of two. "We were completely opposite people--two different worlds it seemed like we came from," Lynch says. "But we clicked. She was like my sister, the big sister that I never...