Careful, the Doors Are Closing
Last month’s suicide attacks in Moscow shocked anyone who studied Dzhanet Abdullayeva’s photo. But it wasn’t her baby face or cold blood that impressed our writer. It was her choice of metro stations.
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20 April 2010: Afternoon
Kandahar's deputy mayor killed while praying in a mosque. Iranian cleric blames immodestly dressing, promiscuous women for natural disasters. Instapaper: Peace in the much-promised land looks more and more elusive, and the process to achieve it much, much tougher. Fear of lawsuits causes supermarkets to waste tons
Happiness Is?
The notion of considering the happiness of the citizenry is not a particularly novel one (think Jeremy Bentham), though the burgeoning of happiness research appears to be a growth industry. These days the disaffected white people who are holding various anti-something-or-other rallies around the country seem to
19 April 2010: Morning
A tearful President Lee Myung-bak vows to find those responsible for last month's deadly sinking of a South Korean warship. Gates's memo calls into question Obama's Iran policy, which is the same as Bush's, except reason replaces fear. Attempting to ferry
The Twitter Issue
Twitter's not just the next step in online communication or social networking, according to Francesco Masci—it's the next step in civilization.
19 April 2010: Afternoon
Oklahoma law professor on lessons learned from defending McVeigh. A huge, swirling column of black smoke and debris rose into the cloudless sky. Clinton: Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy; no one is right all the time. Op: We now live in a global democracy--it's
Homer Again
One might view tinkering with the Homeric epics a foolish endeavor or a brave effort—in any case, it is not a project lacking in ambition. Young Zachary Mason’s debut novel (if that is what this book is), The Lost Books of the Odyssey (FSG), envisions Odysseus’s tale
The Postman Rings Twice
Perhaps it is inevitable that a giant like the Nobel laureate and Chilean poet Pablo Neruda suffers posthumous paper cuts at the hands of academic scolds such as Ilan Stavans (who mocks and scorns the poet as a Stalinist stooge). Happily, we have also been graced with the posthumous publication
The Answer, My Friend
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. To help a reader determine which Dylan album is best, we arrive at every possible solution. Introducing “Your Best Bob Dylan Album Calculator.”
16 April 2010: Weekend
Various views of Europe's spreading ash plume blowing from Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland. Live aircraft traffic above Europe. Holocaust commemoration increasingly occuring on Facebook despite social media being built to promote what is recent. Obama orders hospital visitation rights for gays and lesbians. Uninformed American summarizes watching