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...oughta come to Renaissance Weekend," the anarcho-cartoonist Doug Marlette once told me. "It's the annual meeting of the Bill Moyers wing of the Southern Baptist Convention. The sociology is just gothic!" Doug's ability to offend--gracefully, brilliantly, effortlessly--went into overdrive when confronted by high-minded Dixie earnestness. One year he unveiled his version of the Clinton Memorial at a Renaissance workshop, with Hillary Clinton sitting in the front row: a statue of an unzipped zipper. Doug reveled and rebelled in his Southernness. He wrote a novel about his grandmother, a textile-union militant. He called...
...Kenneth Baer is co-editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Jeff Nussbaum is a principal of the communications firm West Wing Writers. Both were speechwriters for Vice President Al Gore...
...group provoked a 34-day war with Israel that left more than a thousand dead and large parts of Lebanon in ruins, Hizballah is rearming. Interviews with Hizballah officials and fighters and other Lebanese close to the party show that the group's battle-hardened military wing is stockpiling weapons, digging positions and training new fighters - despite resolutions passed by the U.N. Security Council last summer calling for it to disband. What's more, the Shi'ite party appears to be preparing for battles on two fronts: against Israel and against Hizballah's sectarian rivals in Lebanon. Hizballah has begun...
...moving discreetly to negotiate freedom for another Gaza hostage - Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Shalit, seized in June 2006 in a raid by Palestinian militants who had tunneled under the Israeli security wall around Gaza, is currently being held by kidnappers who include members of Hamas' own military wing, as well another radical group, the Popular Resistance Committees...
With limited post-collegiate playing opportunities available to women to begin with, plus the National Women's Hockey League's decision to suspend play in its eastern wing for this coming season, Chu would have had no outlet to play competitive hockey had she joined the Crimson coaching staff...