BY SHAYNE NELSON DISPATCH FROM PARIS ///•\ Dateline: 28 June 2007 Very few people today connect the brilliant strategies of Charles de Gaulle with today’s situation in France, but unless I’m mistaken, there’s a direct link. Not only does the major Paris airport bear the General’s name, but the political climate still suffers, I believe, [...]
BY PHIL ROCKSTROH A sprawling Mcmansion under construction. The styles increasingly resemble “bourgeois castles,” the compulsion to “ape one’s betters” so typical of those who need to flaunt their wealth to reassure their own sense of self-worth. Cost to the environment is also much larger than in normal construction. In microcosmic mimicry of the plight [...]
BY JASON MILLER Sculpture: “The Id” by TJ Dixon and James Nelson Dateline: 6/24/07 NOTE TO OUR READERS: We will be most grateful if you also pay attention to our special note at the end of this feature. Thank you. —The Editors. Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to [...]
NOTICE TO OUR READERS: THE EDITORS WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO A SPECIAL MESSAGE AT THE END OF THIS FEATURE. THANK YOU. WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY SiCKO by clicking here. Broadband required. We know what the diagnosis is and what needs to be done. Now the question is whether the American public has what [...]
NOTICE TO OUR READERS: THE EDITORS WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO A SPECIAL MESSAGE AT THE END OF THIS FEATURE. THANK YOU. WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY SiCKO by clicking here. Broadband required. We know what the diagnosis is and what needs to be done. Now the question is whether the American public has what [...]
In almost any country in the world this charming couple would be classified as simply “mainstream liberals,” centrists, but in America many insist on calling them leftists. The confusion—seeded in great measure by the zealots of the right—contributes a great deal to the troubles ordinary Americans have in sorting out what’s what on the political [...]
In almost any country in the world this charming couple would be classified as simply “mainstream liberals,” centrists, but in America many insist on calling them leftists. The confusion—seeded in great measure by the zealots of the right—contributes a great deal to the troubles ordinary Americans have in sorting out what’s what on the political [...]
BY JONATHAN STEELE | Dateline: The Guardian (U.K.) June 22, 2007 The Hamas emblem. Hamas, or Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya or "Islamic Resistance Movement,"[1]) is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist organization. It was elected in January 2006 as the government of the Palestinian people.[2] Since the Battle for Gaza in June 2007, when it took by force [...]
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