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That was one of the odder answers I received to a question I asked over ten thousand times this summer: “who do you plan to vote for in the presidential election?” Other answers included “I don’t know, let me ask my wife,” “I don’t follow politics, but would you like to hear some of my short fiction?” and my favorite, “I’m an anarchist. I don?...
...Canada, in September, a few hundred thousand or so otherwise sensible folks spend 10 days and nights dreaming movies. The Toronto International Film Festival, which wrapped its 29th annual session on September 18, showcased 253 features and 75 shorts, with screenings that began at 9 a.m. and kept going until the climax of a Midnight Madness movie?say, the Japanese Zebraman, Takashi Miike's zesty tribute to a nerdy superhero that had the crowd la-la-ing along to its theme song at two in the morning...
...funded. That is just plain misleading. The council has constitutional guarantees against that, and enough money to live up to the commitment. Fully 70 percent of all council money must go to student groups via the grant system. And there is a strong precedent for allocating at least 20 thousand dollars to the HoCos every semester. And the recent trend has been to increase the funding going to these groups. Last year, student groups and HoCos got more money than ever, and there is no reason to believe the trend will be reversed...
...problems like the economy and health reform that apparently even such savvy political essayists as Krauthammer have forgotten that they exist. Anisha Mason San Francisco What about the administration's distortions on Iraq's involvement in 9/11 and its supposed weapons of mass destruction? More than a thousand American troops and many thousands of Iraqis have paid for those distortions with their lives. Claude Gordon London Bush is decisive and bold, but those traits without knowledge, sensitivity (to others and to cultural contexts) and wisdom are dangerous. We don't know yet whether Afghanistan will survive as a free...
...fall of Constantine’s city reads like an epic. Constantinople had stood as the center of an empire that traced its lineage back to the Caesars. The army which broke into its gates was drawn from a dozen nations and was over a hundred thousand men strong. A rag-tag assortment of Venetians, Genoese, and Greeks, numbering barely seven thousand, defended the city against this horde, fighting bravely to thwart an outcome they knew to be inevitable. The last Christian Emperor died fighting, casting himself headlong into the oncoming enemy, a death that allowed the Byzantine empire...