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...strike changes history in Iraq, it will be a matter more of momentum than mechanics. For the thousands of Americans fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of what the Pentagon calls a "Long War" against terrorism, the ability to pause, even for an hour, to revel in a clear military success was welcome. "A cult figure is dead because people he trusted betrayed him," a senior U.S. government official mused on his back porch in Washington on the night of the announcement, smoking a cigar and sipping wine. "They'll be studying this op years from...
...happiness and affluence. But even true images are sinful imitations of God, who can alone create. Relief at escaping their students unscathed for another day makes the teachers' chatter of farewell in the halls and on the parking lot too loud, like the rising excitement of drunks. The teachers revel when they are away from the school. Some have the pink lids and bad breaths and puffy bodies of those who habitually drink too much. Some get divorces; some live with others unmarried. Their lives away from the school are disorderly and wanton and self-indulgent. They are paid...
...DIED. Jean-Fran?ois Revel, 82, witty, influential French philosopher and journalist who tweaked European intellectuals for their knee-jerk anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book Without Marx or Jesus argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Acad?mie Fran?aise, which defends the standards of the French language, Revel recently disparaged his countrymen, declaring: "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi ... [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving their vitriol "for Ronald Reagan and George...
DIED. Jean-François Revel, 82, witty, influential French philosopher and journalist who tweaked European intellectuals for their knee-jerk anti-Americanism; in Paris. His 1970 book, Without Marx or Jesus, argued that the U.S. model of multiparty democracy, not socialism, was the best way to achieve world peace. One of 40 members of the Académie Française, which defends the standards of the language, he recently rebuked his countrymen, saying, "We French have had little to say against Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi [or] the imams of the Islamic Republic of Iran," instead saving vitriol "for Ronald Reagan...
...music of multiple genres as not only a writer, but also as a musical director, producer, and even actor (he was a player in the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Pippinâ€). His musical tastes run the gamut from Haydn and Revel to Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and Swedish pop producer Max Martin, the man behind such notorious bubble-gum hits as “Hit Me Baby One More Time†and “Since U Been Gone.†After a performance of original pop and rock...