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...boat trip with amusing commentary by a real Thames waterman, choose a Red Rover service (1) from Waterloo Millennium (London Eye) pier for the Tate Modern and the Tower of London (44 20 7740 0400; citycruises.com...
...like ornamentation that alone evoke the Tudor spirit. Oscar de la Renta showed ermine and chinchilla shrugs atop embroidered tulle. For Burberry Prorsum, Christopher Bailey referenced armor with a collection of austere leather coats, metal-studded dresses and black gauntlets that would not seem out of place in the Tower of London. Rodarte featured shimmering gold dresses fit for a nascent Queen...
...unrelated to any plot to harm Americans directly. Two other terror cells supposedly smashed by American security services seemed both inept and far from able to carry out the frightening attacks that the Department of Homeland Security said they planned, including an attack on Chicago’s Sears Tower and a tunnel into Manhattan...
...that has been a part of past American wars simply does not exist. It does not register that someone our age may have just perished. For all our devotion to the values of academia, we hardly study the war in Iraq and its ramifications. Finally some in the ivory tower are starting to take notice. At a roundtable discussion during its annual meeting last month, members of the American Political Science Association expressed their worry that many college students lack a clear and thorough understanding of American military institutions in a time of war. The speakers were especially concerned about...
...from the criticism of Jewish people as a whole—as we must—discourses like Summers’ risk leaving the conversation to the people least able to engage tête-à-tête rather than gun-to-gun, bomb-to-bomb, and plane-to-tower. For that reason, I fear that the pronouncements of Summers—and our many colleagues who would stifle debate about Israel—are themselves “anti-Semitic in their effect, if not their intent...