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Nine days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush told the U.S. Congress, "Americans are asking, 'Why do they hate us?'" Unlocking the mystery of what motivates Islamic extremists like Osama bin Laden has become the most urgent intellectual challenge of our time. Occidentalism: A Short History...
For years Braff kept meticulous notebooks of overheard stories, personal experiences, friends' lives and local newspaper clippings (thus saving from being lost to history the tale of the Jersey hotel workers who drilled holes in the walls to watch guests have sex). He used them in a romantic comedy about...
On the bicentennial of his re-election as President, Jefferson still intrigues Americans for another reason: his tantalizing inner complexity. The tall, soft-spoken Virginia squire who loved fine wines and whose enormous book collection became the core of the Library of Congress was no unfeeling, detached egghead but a...
By sunnily questioning her talent and not approaching each role with a cyborgian ambition to be the next Julia Roberts, Knightley has separated herself a bit from the ever expanding galaxy of post-adolescent It girls (see box)--and staked a slightly more credible claim to actually being the next...
Yet joy--cheekily comic, indefatigably romantic--is what Cole Porter was all about, whatever tests and traumas he endured. We need to see that unlikely triumph, maybe especially at this moment. Watching him stumble glumly to his grave is not an entertaining--or useful--alternative. --By Richard Schickel