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I found Peter Beinart's article on patriotism informative and accurate but also ironic. He says liberals don't like symbolic patriotism, yet much of the support for the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, is symbolic. Liberals are concerned more with what the mere election of a black President would represent...
This is a different kind of cultural language from Vietnam movies, where the Doors or Jimi Hendrix would sonically represent the dark terror of war. Here, it's all ironic contrast. After the accidental shooting of a civilian, Corporal Josh Ray Person (James Ransone) cracks, "It's all that damn...
The rotting wooden boats on the garbage-strewn beach at Al-Faw represent the last frontier at the far corner of southeastern Iraq. Barely 55 yards (50 m) across a narrow stretch of water known as the Shatt al-Arab - close enough to swim over - lies Iran, an elusive but...
Taken together, these policies represent a desperate and perhaps even radical attempt to contain the heart disease, diabetes and other metabolic consequences of an obesity epidemic that doctors believe has spiraled out of control. "We have to start somewhere," says Dr. Jatinder Bhatia, a neonatologist at the Medical College of...
Obama's election would, like Kennedy's, represent a triumph over past prejudice. The election of an African American, like the election of a Catholic, would be a sign that America is--as Michelle Obama implied--a different and better nation than it was before, one more worthy of the...