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west of the atlantic
atlantic monthly unearths four perspectives on new york city from their voluminous annals.
df world
gore (vidal) on gore (election)
(laurence) tribe on (military) tribunals
(jon lee) anderson on surrender (in kunduz)
(nytimes) mag on (wes) anderson
powder keg
"The dry powder used in the anthrax attacks is virtually indistinguishable in critical technical respects from that produced by the United States military before it shut down its biowarfare program, according to federal scientists and a report prepared for a military contractor."
pound foolish
"The policy of using political Islam as an anti-Communist tool was a crucial reason why so much of the Muslim world came to be dominated by stagnant, undemocratic but stable (so it seemed) and adequately pro-Western governments, on one hand, and the traditional forces of political Islam, reconfigured for the latter half of the 20th century, on the other. The crowning achievement of such a policy was the defeat of the modernizing alternative: those movements that hoped to avoid aligning with either the Soviet Union or the United States; to develop their societies along secular lines by, ideally, ever more democratic means; and to substitute nationalism for colonial humility and Islamic traditionalism."
comfy cozy
old brown shoe
long long long
for you blue
only a northern song
savoy truffle
think for yourself
something
while my guitar gently weeps
here comes the sun
center of attention
The Rabbi and the Centerfold
opinionadir
Among the isolated, out-of-step losers who dare open their mouths to mutter "doubts" about America's military campaign in Afghanistan, you will sometimes hear the traitorous comment: "This war is just about oil."
We here at the Global Eye take stern exception to such cynical tommyrot. No one who has made a clear and dispassionate assessment of the situation in the region could possibly say the new Afghan war is "just about oil."
It's also about drugs.
girls who wear glasses
"Nowadays, they do. Whether it’s Ted Koppel being made by the Iranian hostage crisis or Arthur Kent turning into the “Scud Stud” during the Gulf War, historic news stories have become the journalistic fast track to celebrity. And this happens so routinely that the search for the new media star is automatically built into coverage of the events themselves. Within hours of the attack on the World Trade Center, you could already hear people asking, “Who’s going to be made by this one?"
making copy
Will the FBI's most-wanted terrorist have his place in Time as the magazine's Man of the Year?
rain or shine
weatherbug has been a good addition to my tray. real time temps.