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...Minister, of course, turned out to be disastrously wrong. By 2003, Iraq was already a ruined nation, long incapable of sustaining a sophisticated WMD program. And the Middle East turned out to be very different from the Balkans and West Africa. In a region where religious loyalties and fissures shape societies and where the armies of "the West" summon ancient rivalries and bitter memories, it was naive to expect that an occupation would quickly change a society's nature. "When we removed the Taliban and Saddam Hussein," Blair told Congress in 2003, "this was not imperialism. For these oppressed people...
Bellow himself was a great advocate of progress, and he challenged its enemies in passages such as this one from his novel, Herzog: “As megatons of water shape organisms on the ocean floor…The beautiful super-machinery opening a new life for innumerable mankind. Would you deny them the right to exist? Would you ask them to labor and go hungry while you yourself enjoyed old-fashioned Values? You—you yourself are a child of this mass and a brother to all the rest. Or else an ingrate, dilettante, idiot...
...drums, bought him a drum set. “We had a drum set set up in the living room. And I used to play it non-stop,” Collins says, laughing. Since then, his creative juices haven’t stopped flowing, finding outlets in every shape, size, and color. Growing up in New York, Collins continued percussion lessons at Julliard, playing with the New York Youth Symphony as well as a rock band. When the group got serious, he decided to defer coming to Harvard for a year in order to record an album with...
...directed me, for the first time, to the uglier aspects of the city. Beyond the postcard images and the floods of tourists lay crime and violence so severe that many dubbed Washington the murder capital of the world. The District’s public education system was in shameful shape, and I became painfully aware that I lived in a small white enclave far removed from the city’s majority black population.Yes, I slowly learned, Washington was not always the inspiring metropolis that guidebooks and movies had promised me. And if Barry’s escapades hadn?...
...Cambridge District Court judge gave Chen the go-ahead to begin the process of taking back possession of the property, which is located across from Mather, on the corner of Flagg and Banks Streets. “The store is open, but it’s not in good shape,” Chen said before the court handed down its ruling. “The inventory is low, and not nicely done. If I take it back, I have to fix a lot of things.” Saini confirmed that Chen might soon take back ownership...