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...believe, the knowledge and the judgment to attack one of the most difficult problems in current history, and that is the rise of the Muslims. “Make no mistake about it,” he continued, “This hasn’t happened for a thousand years. These people are very, very dedicated. They’re also very smart in their own way, and we need to keep the feet to the fire and keep pressing these people until we defeat them or chase them back to their caves, or, in other words...
...however, is not one of those works. Directed by Karol W. Malik ’08 and produced by Estelle L. Eonnet ’07, the Loeb Ex’s production of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s existential meditation on the “Thousand and One Nights” was a compelling, almost hypnotic piece of theatre. Al-Hakim’s “thousand and second night” is an ingenious commentary on its source material...
What researchers found was a stretch of a few hundred thousand years during which foraminifera shells were unusually rich in oxygen-18, suggesting the presence of glaciers. Though changes in ocean temperature can also alter the oxygen balance, sea-bottom temperatures don't vary much no matter what's happening up top, yet the bottom-dwelling foraminifera still exhibited an oxygen imbalance, implying that the ice effect was more likely. Nobody can explain how you can have glaciers in a superhot world. But then, nobody can really explain how the world got quite that hot in the first place...
...need for American "leadership" in the world is a favorite one - with little attempt to educate their audiences in the complexities of the age? Is the exercise not a great license for an army of pundits to bloviate, often inaccurately, in the papers, on TV, and in a thousand blogs, so much so that you can forgive those who tell pollsters (too many of them, too) that they trust not a word the media say? And does the whole thing not just drag on too damn long...
...fierce indignation among Japan's literati, many of whom think that keitai shosetsu should stay on cell-phone screens. But it is undeniably shaking up a publishing industry whose sales have been declining for a decade. A professional author of fiction is lucky to sell more than a few thousand copies of a title. A popular cell-phone novelist sells several hundred thousand, and recruitment for new talent is intense. "Find the novelist in you!" online ads cry. "Make your debut...