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...Mugabe not for his human rights abuses, but because “he is setting the example by showing that if white farmers don’t cooperate, he’s willing to take the land back.” This is not the ranting of a conspiracy theorist; the West really does have a double standard when it comes to dictators. Mugabe’s real indiscretion in the eyes of the West is less a about his abuse of political power, and more about whom he is attacking. The European Union and the U.S. claim...
...getting out of the West Bank, withdrawing many of the Israeli settlements there and building a border fence to separate Israel from the Palestinians. That, of course, dovetails to some extent with what the Arab League has proposed. And also with the thinking of Israel's leading military theorist, the Hebrew University's Martin Van Creveld, who argued recently that "Whether because Mr Arafat does not want to end terrorism or because he cannot do so, another Oslo Agreement is not on the cards. Therefore Israel's one salvation is to get out and build a wall - a wall...
...high end, Mikhail Baryshnikov hailed him as the dancer of the century, and Jerome Robbins created a ballet in tribute to Astaire's "I'm Old Fashioned" dance with Rita Hayworth. Starchy Teutonic theorist Siegfried Kracauer praised him for injecting realism in Hollywood films by "dancing over table tops and down garden paths into the real world." Kracauer was totally wrong - Astaire didn't bring realism but rather a nonchalant nobility to movies - but it's touching that the nutty professor bent his theory to accommodate a tap dancer he loved...
This group includes a biological chemist, a string theorist and a computer scientist interested in cryptography...
Roderick MacFarquhar, government department chair, confirmed that Summers recently denied tenure to 54-year-old Istvan Hont, a political theorist at Cambridge University...