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Thursday, Dec 06, 2001

fly high friedbird

tom friedmans moment in the sun

Wednesday, Dec 05, 2001

gone fishing

AOL Time Warner Chief Executive to Retire

futurama

2011

Tuesday, Dec 04, 2001

reagan redux

the people that came up with That 70s Show have come up with a groundbreaking new concept for a tv sitcom. its called That 80s Show.

df starlight express

its pat...buchanan
saint george...bush
whats the frequency, kenneth...lay
alexander the great...cockburn
how nixon adversely impacted supreme court nominations
john dean on presidential secrecy
navy has best record creating new weapons
why washington dc will one day have a baseball team

Monday, Dec 03, 2001

heil myself

A new book claims Hitler was a closet case.

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."

Sunday, Dec 02, 2001

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."

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