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Even as the U.S. military slowly withdraws from Iraq, the flow of additional U.S. forces into Afghanistan--to what many in the U.S. military call the "forgotten war"--is on the rise. By late this summer, 32,000 American troops are scheduled to be in Afghanistan, the most in more than six years of combat. Beyond highlighting the resilience of the U.S. military, it also showcases the increasing irrelevance of NATO, which is supposed to be leading the fight. Some key alliance members--France, Germany, Italy and Spain--are refusing to send troops to battle the Taliban or placing "caveats...
...half-century, Buckley, who died Wednesday at the age of 82, was chief spokesman for the signal political phenomenon of late 20th century America: the rise of conservatism. The son of an oilman, he leveraged his wealth with energy, passion and cheerful relentlessness. He wrote books laying out the conservative worldview; launched a magazine, National Review, to nurture and promote it; and created one of the longest-running shows in public-television history, Firing Line, to broadcast his views to millions...
...technology is isolating us more and more, I think there is a thirst to gather. Actually having to show up somewhere at 8 o'clock, being part of a community, is very healing and powerful." What's more, the eclipse of the concept album, which has accompanied the rise of iTunes and the return to primacy of the single, may be making the Broadway stage more attractive to composers who want to tell stories, not just write songs...
...lives taken under Henry VIII’s reign, and, from a more modern perspective, the commerce of women between upper-class families. The film, directed by Justin Chatwick, is as tragic and gory as it is decadent and passionate. It tells the fictionalized story of the rise of the Boleyn daughters—Mary and Anne—in the English court of King Henry VIII, and how both come to bear his children though only one ascends the throne. Natalie Portman ’03 (“V for Vendetta”) gives one of her most...
...Islamic world, if they think he converted from Islam (for the record, he was never Muslim). By that ornately twisted logic, though, one might add that it was the martyrdom of Hussein in the year 680, beheaded at Karbala in a clash with the caliphate, that gave rise to 1400 years or so of Sunni/Shi'a violence. So how on earth could Obama be a fair broker in Iraq...