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...largest and most troublesome tribes, was not on a mission to case New York City for a terrorist attack. On the contrary, Noorzai, a confidant of the fugitive Taliban overlord, who is a well-known ally of Osama bin Laden's, says he had been invited to Manhattan to prove that he could be of value in America's war on terrorism. "I did not want to be considered an enemy of the United States," Noorzai told TIME. "I wanted to help the Americans and to help the new government in Afghanistan...
...cyberspace and on newsstands, writers are out to prove that parenting, or at least parents, can be cool. The online magazine Babble.com spun off from literary sex journal Nerve com publishes articles by and for parents who can't quite believe they ended up doing something as square as raising a kid. (In his Babble blog Baby Daddy, Steve Almond endearingly refers to his 3-month-old as "the little f___er.") In a typical hipster-parent offering, an edgy novelist, musician or feminist sex writer has a baby--Me! Who'd'a thunk it!--and wrestles to reconcile...
...still had a manifesto committed to nationalizing key parts of industry, promoting an agenda that was set against every interest of British business," says Ed Owen, a former government adviser. After being crushed by Margaret Thatcher in that election, says Owen, Labour decided that it had to prove it was "now the party that would provide the means by which industry and business could flourish." But Labour lost elections in 1987 and again in 1992, when it was defeated by the unpopular Tory government of John Major, itself mired in accusations of sleaze. Katwala calls that last outcome "astonishingly traumatic...
...team was first formed to develop a hybrid entertainment system that Tanjeloff had proposed at an entrepreneurial competition his freshman year. While Tanjeloff did not win that competition, one of the judges saw promise in his idea and introduced him to some of the individuals that ultimately would prove crucial in the genesis of this latest entrepreneurial advance. “I came up with the idea behind ‘Brring!’ at a brainstorming session with the rest of the team in April 2006,” Tanjeloff said. “Ultimately, we wound...
...denouncing. In his ambitious book on James, biographer Robert Richardson illuminates the life and ideas of this oft-cited father of pragmatism with unprecedented clarity, though many of his attempts to legitimate James’ thought only deepen the subject’s shadowy reputation. In aiming to prove James’ relevance to contemporary Western intellectual culture, Richardson frequently shows the tell-tale symptoms of what we might call “Reckless Allusion Syndrome” (RAS), in which all eras and aspects of knowledge become fair game for a textual shout-out, regardless of any deep affiliation...