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...campaign of a thousand cuts is under way, and for what? Chirac doesn't want a "rupture" from his self-preserving balancing act between right and left, which has left French society in aspic for the last 11 years. Does he want to block Sarkozy badly enough to countenance a Socialist victory? The next two months should yield an answer. But no one should put it past...
...leaders have been suggesting more troops were needed ever since the war began. But they've been saying it privately--in an abdication of military responsibility--for fear that they would suffer the same fate as that of General Eric Shinseki, who told a congressional committee that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed in Iraq and was, in effect, fired by Rumsfeld. "We had a responsibility to speak up," said a general who served in Iraq. "You can say what you will about Paul Wolfowitz, but when he was DepSec, he was always on the phone with those...
...those obsessions and addictions leave us only lonelier still. Those 1,079 discursive, hilarious, occasionally infuriating pages stand as the output of a writer's compulsion to communicate, although they can be addictive for readers as well. It's as if Wallace were saying, Listen: it would take a thousand pages to tell you what I mean, to fill the infinite void between you and me--and even then, it wouldn't be enough...
...leaders have been suggesting more troops were needed ever since the war began. But they've been saying it privately-in an abdication of military responsibility-for fear that they would suffer the same fate as that of General Eric Shinseki, who told a congressional committee that "several hundred thousand" troops would be needed in Iraq and was, in effect, fired by Rumsfeld. "We had a responsibility to speak up," said a general who served in Iraq. "You can say what you will about Paul Wolfowitz, but when he was DepSec, he was always on the phone with those...
...onto Facebook Mini-feed these days and you’re bound to be notified that one acquaintance or another has uploaded photos of herself and her five thousand (marginally cute) friends. Inevitably, she has titled her photo album something along the lines of “Hotness!!!” or “All my favorite girls!!!” Actually, you yourself have probably made such an album at some point—almost all of us have, I am afraid. Maybe you titled yours “H-Bomb,” since that?...