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Misha is a stateless being, trapped between a fantasy America and a debased post-Soviet Russia ("a nation of busybody peasants thrust into an awkward modernity") that he regards with an Oedipal mixture of love and contempt. East and West play a hilarious game of Telephone in his head--he's obsessed with hip-hop, and he and his best friend have formed an awful duo called the Gentlemen Who Like...
...document weighs in on genocide, avian flu, AIDS, drug cartels and other stateless threats to American safety, but it doesn't offer a new strategy on these topics, beyond reiterating what the administration has done such as the $15 billion, five-year effort to stem AIDS. As with much of life, especially in Washington, the details get worked out later...
...current legislation simply piggybacks on the 1978 FISA law, which was designed to put restrictions on electronic spying against foreign powers rather than solo, stateless actors. So there is no change to the requirement, viewed as outdated by many national security experts, that one party to the tapped call be outside the United States. Which means that for America?s most powerful intelligence tools to be used against its most dangerous threats, any plot has to be discovered while it is still being hatched overseas. If plotters get inside the country as they did before 9/11, the powerful eavesdropping abilities...
...waited 16 years for this moment. It's hard for me to express my emotions right now. It's beyond happiness." HOANG TRAN, one of 229 refugees from the Vietnam War who arrived in the U.S. last week as part of a plan to resettle the nearly 1,600 stateless Vietnamese who have been living in camps in the Philippines since...
...revisionists or worse. But Bertell Ollman, a professor at New York University and an avowed Marxist, observes that "Marx had very little to say of a concrete nature about socialism," the transitional society that would follow the revolution Marx preached. (In strict Marxist terminology, "Communism" is the ideal stateless society to be reached as an ultimate goal.) The only way to get a definitive opinion on the features of Marxist socialism, says Harry Harding, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, would be "to bring Karl back to speak for himself...