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...Guide to the Big Picture Joe Klein criticized Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's National Security Adviser, for being impractical in her strategic approach to world issues [April 19]. But Klein is misguided. An impractical thinker looks at the bigger picture, including the larger ramifications of actions. I would take an impractical, big dreamer over someone focused on tactics who has lost sight of what is really important. Jeffrey I. Kaplan Paramus...
...Klein's essay vividly illustrated Einstein's famous saying that imagination is more important than knowledge. Rice's performance before the 9/11 commission showed her to be smart but ultimately not a big thinker. Even more appalling is Bush's claim that he would have done something if he had known exactly when and where al-Qaeda would strike. The statement makes plain the Administration's failure to appreciate that the mishandling of the threat from al-Qaeda was not a failure of intelligence but a failure of imagination. Michael H. Weiss Marina...
...Klein criticized Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's National Security Adviser, for being impractical in her strategic approach to world issues [April 19]. But Klein is misguided. An impractical thinker looks at the bigger picture, including the larger results of actions. I would take an impractical, big dreamer over someone focused on tactics who has lost sight of what is important. JEFFREY I. KAPLAN Paramus...
Actually, it's the biggest U.S. project of Rem Koolhaas, the influential Dutch architect-thinker and hipster-polemicist. "For me it's a building that accommodates both stability and instability," he says. "The things you can predict and the things you can't." What he means is that the library is designed to accommodate whatever new technologies and purposes it may have to serve in the future. And Koolhaas is somebody who understands all too well the power of things you can't predict. The library, which opens officially next month, is not just a new symbol for the city...
...says Singh, a vitriolic opponent of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party. Is the encounter between Bhagwan, the Western-educated agnostic, and Ma Durgeshwari, the Hindu godwoman, an allegory of modern Nehruvian India being seduced by the dark forces of religious fundamentalism? Perhaps. But if Singh the political thinker sees godmen as a danger to India's secularism, Singh the novelist is too deeply attracted to their charlatanry to remember that he's supposed to be warning readers to steer clear of them. "The message gets lost," he ruefully admits...