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It’s a roundabout way of putting it, but the remark contains the secret to Glimcher’s extraordinary success in the art world...
...your article "Inside Tora Bora," you stated that "the Afghans might be useful proxies for some jobs but were perhaps not quite professional enough to finish" the war against the Taliban [THE MANHUNT, Dec. 24]. That remark was offensive and belittling toward those Afghan soldiers who in the past weeks have shed their blood in battle after battle in their homeland. Most of America's ground forces have seen relatively little action during that time, while the "not quite professional" Afghan troops have cleared out the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Such insensitivity to others and a tendency to self-aggrandizement...
...videos, the tape is notably unexciting: a shaky, amateurish pan along a typically busy Singapore street, with views of a subway station and passing commuters. A bland voice provides a running commentary in well-educated English, a litany of street names and building numbers. But then comes a chilling remark: as the camera zooms in on a parking area, the narrator advises his viewers to "notice some of the boxes placed on the motorcycles, these are the same type of boxes that we intend to use"?to plant a bomb. The narrator describes where U.S. military personnel line...
...what Lance Morrow described as our new "homeland," in which we have united against a common enemy, isn't true [ESSAY, Nov. 19]. Flag waving and appreciating police officers in our New Paradigm are wonderful, but how can Morrow say Sept. 11 has brought about "united diversity" and then remark that people want to send Detroit's entire Muslim community back where it came from? He may claim that this represents political incorrectness, which would have been censured under the Old Paradigm, but this is beyond that. It is pure racism. I don't want to go back...
Stone sat quietly at the front of the room throughout Spiegelman’s presentation, making just one remark at the beginning of the meeting...