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...bomb program. But IAEA investigations have found evidence of secret uranium enrichment facilities, and the UN nuclear watchdog had put Iran on notice to sign an agreement accepting more intrusive inspections by October 31, or else. Again, although hawkish elements in the Bush administration had favored a more vigorous pursuit of "regime-change" in Tehran, Washington has pursued the issue of Iran's nuclear capability primarily through the IAEA, although President Bush has warned that the U.S. "will not tolerate" the construction of a nuclear weapon by Iran. U.S. officials also leaked stories of Israel's submarine-launched nuclear cruise...
Penn sees not a conspiracy but a fraternity between the minds that produce these films and those that gave us Gulf War II: Back to Iraq. Both, he says, are "blatant in their pursuit of dummifying the American public." He compares the Administration's Iraq ramp-up to a Hollywood preproduction meeting: "A good director tells you that you're going in to remap the Middle East. A bad director tells you you're going in for weapons that don't exist." And he is happy to keep speaking up--and listening. "I've had dialogue with Dennis Kucinich, with...
...once-respected army officer accused of treason because he refused to kill women and children in a raid. Lai Xi and Li make an uneasy truce long enough to escort a general's daughter (Vicky Zhao Wei) and a Buddhist monk to safety. Can they escape the pursuit of evil Master An (Wang Xueqi), the preening aesthete and superslick fighter who stands in their path...
...seems to recall that eloquent and poignant verse from Jimi Hendrix—“I know what I want, but I just don’t know”—summing up in ten words the problem inherent in living a life of alertness in pursuit of self-knowledge. In a word, Wainwright manages to describe at points what it means to lead a life of logic, rationality and learning while embroiled in a mist of madness, illogical complications and all that the mind cannot grasp...
...whatsoever. Please do not misunderstand me: I am not for one second suggesting that students should be exposed to less history, literature or science in exchange for learning a language. Learning a foreign language, however, should be viewed as just as important as any of those areas of academic pursuit, and not, as many now see it, as merely a pointless relic of Harvard’s days as an aristocratic finishing school...