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...same day I was reading Ann Coulter's book, I read Margaret Talbot's excellent New Yorker piece from last week on Oriana Fallaci, the Coulteresque Italian journalist who has written that the "art of invading and conquering and subjugating" is "the only art which the sons of Allah have always excelled." Fallaci has said that Muslims "breed like rats," and she has complained that Muslims have left "yellow streaks of urine that profaned the millenary marbles of the Baptistery" in Florence. As it happens, it's illegal in much of Europe to say such outlandish things: Fallaci currently faces...
...surprised to see him emerge as the moral conscience of our generation of journalists,” says New Yorker staff writer and CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey R. Toobin ’82, who worked on The Crimson with Kristof. “I am surprised to see him as the Indiana Jones of our generation of journalists...
...interaction with the Islamic world. Filkins’ research will examine the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and look at the relationship between the Western and Islamic worlds after September 11th. Eliza Griswold, another Nieman fellow and a freelance journalist whose byline has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Magazine, will study the antagonism of Christianity and Islam in nations along the Tenth Parallel. International fellows researching the Middle East include Finnish editor Patsy Nakell, who will study the early 20th century history of American policy in the region, and Anja...
...case, Gore doesn't have to make any decisions soon. Meanwhile, he's enjoying his red-carpet moment, even as he pleads that he's a little bewildered by it all. The experience, he says, reminds him of a New Yorker cartoon that used to hang on the wall of his Senate office. It showed a funny-looking dog riding a tricycle onstage in an opera house, to rapturous applause from a fancy audience. Gore can relate to what the caption says the dog is thinking: "I don't know why they like this, but I'm going to keep...
...possible that Dylan's social-musical conscience was a career movie too. He suggested as much to Nat Hentoff, who wrote a 1964 New Yorker profile on Dylan. About the "finger-pointing songs," he said, "Some of that was jumping into the scene to be heard and a lot of it was because I didn't see anybody else doing that sort of thing." But to those who took the songs at face value, they sounded like the voice of an angry God promising hard rain if the human race doesn't shape up quick...