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...stunning. He called the level of violence in Iraq "satanic." He said that as the violence increases, "the center disappears, and normal people acting not irrationally end up acting like extremists." In other words, if you're a resident of Baghdad, the most rational response is to seek protection from one of the militias-al-Qaeda if you're Sunni, the Mahdi Army if you're Shi'ite-or to get out of town. "It's impossible to get your teeth fixed in Baghdad," a U.S. intelligence official told me recently. "All the dentists have left the country...
...Pinot Meunier. The Specialist Growers A young new generation of small growers is making a name for itself by challenging conventional wisdom about how to make Champagne. These vignerons reject the use of pesticides, borrow winemaking techniques from Burgundy and produce small-batch cuvées that seek to reflect the particular character of the vines they lovingly tend. At Larmandier-Bernier in Vertus,
...habits should earn nothing but derision for their efforts. Their report?and the ensuing publicity it has received?only serves to draw attention away from the critical need for legitimate scientific-research initiatives to determine the causes of the autism epidemic. The answers that thousands of families so desperately seek about autism will be discovered in the laboratory, not through anyone's cable bill. Alison Singer Senior Vice President Autism Speaks New York City...
...does so with the knowledge that not everybody who graduates will be launched into an academic career. A college such as Harvard is searching for students who will be leaders in all spheres of the world, and that search requires picking applicants from all walks of life. Moreover, colleges seek to balance their classes with students of all backgrounds, which is difficult to do if some minorities are not sufficiently represented...
There are two paths to music immortality: the Prince route and the Patty and Mildred Hill route. In the Prince model, you write a piece of music that people love so much, they seek it out, download it and turn up the radio whenever it comes on. The Hill sisters model is trickier; they composed the melody for Happy Birthday to You. They achieved their fame by writing a tune that people don't listen to so much as sing...