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Unlike most investment banking hopefuls, who can recite their “five-year plans” as readily as their Harvard ID numbers, Krinsky refuses to censor herself or her column for the sake of some distant and as yet unknown job opportunity. “The column’s on my résumé,” Krinsky says, “I’m not embarrassed...
When I told a friend I was making phone calls over the Internet he chuckled urbanely, sat me down in a comfy chair and gently explained that no, you get the Internet over your phone, not the other way round, and for God's sake, would I please try to pull myself together...
...attack another enemy, Iraq. While Saddam Hussein’s regime has engaged in heinous activities in the past, America has no imperative to take military action at this time. Unless the political and military situation changes drastically, the U.S. should not wage war against Iraq for the sake of prolonging the war on terrorism...
Where Bergstein uses the surface to display his psyche, it seems as though Johnson is using surface for surface’s sake. Both offer different pastiches of personalized images, but Johnson distances his viewers by asserting that perhaps from his work, an understanding cannot be derived. Bergstein encourages his spectator to share in his mind. Consequently, the two artists align more visually than thematically. One out of two ain?...
This is the influence of the teaching of the Koran, the most potent and powerful book in Arabia for the past 14 centuries. In the holy book, God promised Muslims who sacrificed themselves for the sake of Islam that they would not die. They would live on in paradise. Muslims, men and women, even secularists, hold to the promise literally. Heaven is then the ultimate reward of the devout who have the courage to take the ultimate test of faith...