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...HANS ISLAND Denmark and Canada exchanged words in March over this 1.3-square-kilometer scrap of Arctic wasteland between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland. Both sides are playing down the dispute, but Hans could be the tip of the iceberg: Canada will launch operation Narwhal, its largest-ever war games in the Arctic, this August as part of a long-term plan to reassert its sovereignty in the north...
...back to the real issues at hand. Nothing is more enjoyable than getting on the moral high horse, especially to call the kettle black. The truth is—like the rest of you with some moral conscious—I love to indulge in the ethical wasteland of “Average Joe.” I only wish that my sole reason for failure were an 80-cent bank balance or the fact that I don’t wear skirts...
These are tough times out there in the vast radio wasteland, what with the FCC threatening Serious and Longterm consequences for on-air personalities who take their rules of propriety in vain. For those of you scoring at home, here's a rogue?s gallery of radio personalities recently dropped for on-air obscenity: Howard Stern, Bubba the Love Sponge and Sandra Tsing...
...Zahara (the Z is a 19th century spelling) is more than a horror story. It's a tale about a man who discovers his own courage in the face of catastrophe, and an instructive fable about cultural contact: Americans and Arabs searching for firm common ground in a wasteland of shifting sands. --By Lev Grossman
...complicated” and “profoundly ambivalent” reaction to the show. Most reviewers tended to dwell on the production’s “dark” and “eerie” aspects, commenting on the vast, gray, sooty wasteland of a set—bare except for three yawning graves—and remarking on how mean and callous the lovers sound as they snipe and push each other around the stage. Save for the unanimous critical praise for the mechanical’s concluding performance of “Pyramus...