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This ending is so completely unbelievable, so shamelessly ridiculous, that you and your friends will see what a sham romantic optimism really is. Afterwards, watch Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs and you’ll see quite clearly how conventional heterosexual relationships descend into shocking violence and degradation anyway. Then tell Magda how you really feel about...
...Dostoyevsky's The Possessed and referred to the burning of a village by radical anarchists: "The fire is in the minds of men, not on the roofs of houses." This is a familiar image to members of Bush's, and my own, baby-boom generation-incendiary idealism, soldiers torching straw huts with Zippo lighters in Vietnam, "destroying a village in order to save it." Bush, in the end, is a classic boomer. His was a speech that could only have been delivered by a member of our exorbitantly messianic generation. Our rhetoric has always been the rhetoric of freedom, framed...
Coming Home British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced that after "intensive and complex discussions," the U.S. government would release the remaining four Britons being held at Guantá namo Bay. The release, expected within weeks, would bring to an end an embarrassing diplomatic tussle between Downing Street and its closest ally; the detainees' three-year confinement and allegations of mistreatment and torture have triggered a huge outcry in Britain. But what will happen to the men - Feroz Abbasi, Moazzam Begg, Richard Belmar and Martin Mubanga - isn't clear. While the Pentagon, which also plans to release an Australian detainee, said...
Chery has already done crazy things to China's auto market, which in turn could have a huge impact on America. The reason is overcapacity. Although executives in Detroit would drink windshield-wiper fluid through a straw for the roughly 15% growth in car sales that China saw last year, in China that increase might be too slow to keep up with production. Foreign firms like GM, Volkswagen and Ford have invested billions of dollars in China to make far more cars than the market can absorb. Last year Chinese consumers bought about 2.2 million cars, and assembly lines...
...more elaborate ones, actually descend from an attempt by the 13th century ascetic genius St. Francis of Assisi to recapture this humble ideal. Put off by the jewel-encrusted and gilt-covered re-creations in the noble courts of his time, he borrowed some real farm animals and real straw and convened his midnight Mass on Christmas Eve of 1223 around a back-to-basics pageant that, as he wrote, showed "how He suffered the lack for all those things needed by an infant...