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...Derb Assehbé, Bab Doukkala, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 70 10; www.lamaisonarabe.com Le Foundouk Restaurant This restored caravansary no longer has beds (or camels), but you'll want to curl up on a divan on the rooftop. Expect rap music as you sit under African carvings, wrought-iron balconies and a chandelier that drops three floors through the atrium. And the Moroccan and French food is delicate and tasty. 55 Souk Hal Fassi, Kat Bennahïd, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 81 90; www.foundouk.com
Sparklehorse is weirder than dreams. Best known for his songs wrought with fragile creepiness, laden with nightmarish imagery and whispered ambiguities, Mark Linkous—the man behind the Sparklehorse curtain—can haunt with the best of them. In this sense, Sparklehorse’s latest album, “Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain” is more of the same—and, after a five-year hiatus, discovering more of the same was more than I could’ve asked for.Linkous’s drug problems?...
...primary documents. Ironists will note this Mark Foley campaign ad which touts him as a protector of children (though not as a Republican). This ABC News report contains clips from a Foley speech he gave for the 2002 Congressional graduation; at the time it must have seemed simply emotionally wrought. With hindsight Foley's clear affection for the pages takes on a slightly different cast. CNN interviewed House Speaker Dennis Hastert about his knowledge of Foley's actions. Hastert claims that he did "not recall" any conversation about Foley's emails prior to last Friday. This, of course, contradicts...
...information officer in Government Information Services (the departmental initials were sarcastically said to stand for "God Is Speaking"). A rich store of anecdotes spans what were, arguably, the most tumultuous periods of Hong Kong's history-the civil unrest and refugee influx of the late 1960s, the social changes wrought by the rapid industrialization of the 1970s, and the 1980s boom years (which were never fully enjoyed, owing to the deep anxieties surrounding Hong Kong's return to China in 1997). The book nears conclusion with Moss's eventual appointment as department head and it also-in a marvelous final...
...insult to straw men everywhere [Sept. 11]. No credible analyst of the Middle East believes that democracy is not preferable to the tyranny of Islamic fundamentalism. The debate is over tactics. Perhaps the only human attribute more powerful than the yearning for democracy is the loathing of political change wrought at gunpoint. Boot's signal example of democracy's triumph over tyranny is the collapse of the Soviet Empire. But that victory was not achieved by U.S. forces unilaterally storming the gates of the Kremlin and tearing down the statue of Lenin. Rather, the Soviet Union rotted from within, abetted...