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...following the terrorist attacks, Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Congress to approve sweeping legislation granting the government unprecedented access to suspects? phone and electronic communications. Ashcroft has also appealed for the right to detain foreign nationals for unspecified periods of time without filing charges - essentially a suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. But Ashcroft isn?t going to get exactly what he wants, thanks to a peculiar coalition of left-leaning civil libertarians and right-leaning libertarians - united by their fear of government intrusion...
Many Muslim scholars say the Taliban brand of Islam falls far outside most interpretations of Koranic writ. And the Taliban's civic reign of repression has made it a pariah even in the Muslim world. Only three nations--Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates--accorded the Taliban diplomatic recognition, and the U.A.E. rescinded it last week...
...larger sense, the world political music of today is about markets, writ large. The business of rebel artists in the era of business is to figure out their focus in a period governed as much by hidden international market forces as by national political frontmen, when Michael Eisner wields as much power in their world as George W. Bush. Even on American politico folkie Ani DiFranco's latest album, Reckoning/Reveling, you see a global perspective creeping in: "I think in ancient China they kinda/figured out how the body works/but our culture is just a roughneck/teenage jerk/with a bottle of pills/and...
Freshman Week, in my experience, was just Prefrosh Weekend writ large: an interminable orgy of smiles and introductions and small talk. (For some, it’s just a plain old orgy, period, but that’s beside the point.) The experience of stepping outside my body and watching myself schmooze was both confusing (weren’t Harvard students supposed to be socially inept?) and a bit scary (aren’t we too young to be good at this B.S.?), but the main worry was a more practical one: how am I going to remember...
True, the American writ does not extend everywhere. The dictators of Iraq, Burma and North Korea, for example, are beyond its reach. But within the Western sphere, surely, there is no hiding from American power. Those who run afoul of it are not imprisoned on Elba or St. Helena; they are jailed in Miami (Manuel Noriega) or in more cosmopolitan quarters in the Netherlands...