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...ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.” There are also moments of humor— “It was simply that he didn’t fool me with that world-weary, seen-it-all manner of his. So he’d been through a war. So he’d been on TV a couple times. So his dick was a foot long. God almighty! I’m surrounded by a pack of rabid dogs!” But what makes the novel so exciting in hindsight is its overture—the first...
...tell us about your current work?TB: I’ve been very busy writing my dissertation; in fact, the paperwork’s going in this week. I’m writing about what I call performative realism in American independent cinema. I particularly focus on post-war realist films that straddle the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, of which Andy Warhol’s films are an example. People acting as themselves in his films often create a sense of uncertainty regarding their role as characters.The reason I call it performative realism is that...
...other places - were tactical successes in that they managed to kill hundreds of innocent people, grab the world's headlines and briefly dominate the nightmares of Western policymakers. But the strategy those attacks were a part of has proved to be fundamentally flawed. Terrorism departs from the rules of war by deliberately targeting the innocent, but it shares the basic motivational force of conventional warfare - "the pursuit of politics by other means," as Clausewitz wrote. (See pictures of the challenge of memorializing 9/11...
...solid Republican, Wilson has earned 100% ratings from the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy group. Supported a constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman and vocally supported President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's management of the war in Iraq. A display case in his office contains pieces of Saddam Hussein's dismantled missiles from the first Gulf War...
...Telegraph's story. But Stofile said the results are irrelevant: "She may be a hermaphrodite, but so what? She is still a girl ... a young girl enjoying growing up." Stofile added that if Semenya is ruled ineligible for further competition by the IAAF, "it will be a third world war...