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There will be a lot of constitutional issues under discussion in weeks to come because the war on terrorism has the potential to embed itself deeply into our legal norms. Conventional wars, against nation-states that can be plainly identified and defeated, have a clear aim in sight. The fight against endlessly shape-shifting terrorist groups is more open-ended. So when we talk about trade-offs between freedom and security, it's a mistake to assume they will be short-term adjustments. The emergency powers that we agree to now may well become the American way for years...
...into their offices. It was a lot of money too: more than $12 million at last count, and it was still coming in last week. Many of the checks, moreover, came from people who attached notes making clear that in part they had been moved to give by the sight of the former rivals joining force. Mark Ward, a USAID official who worked closely with Bush and Clinton this year, said the unprecedented partnership changed the way Americans think about charitable aid. "They were able to get the attention of people in the U.S. who didn't give money...
...Though the Caucus’ goals today are wide-ranging, the minutes indicate that the group has not lost sight of its founding purpose—to limit Summers’ role in Faculty governance...
...Apparently the great directors don?t care to abandon their favorite themes and stories. Like Herzog, Wong keeps making the same movie; his subject is love, how it hurts, and how beautiful a sight that pain can be. Like Bergman, he has made a sequel to a favorite earlier film. In the 2000 romance In the Mood for Love, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai circled each other in slo-mo for an hour and a half, and their almost-touching sparked more erotic heat than a dozen Jenna Jameson epics. In the new film Leung plays a harsher...
...opposition to the push for an even bigger weapon, the hydrogen bomb, helped set in motion the events that led to his being stripped of his government security clearance. The authors show the ways in which Oppenheimer was complicit in his own destruction, but never lose sight of the ugliness of the process...