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...Orwell's language was famously spare, but his themes were subtle. He knew that analogy is not destiny, and would surely have resisted the idea that Americans are bound to behave badly in Iraq simply because all previous imperialists have done so when given a chance. He would certainly have noted that the post-imperial experience has often been a miserable one. Since independence from Britain in 1948, Burma, for example, has been raped by a succession of military regimes. Self-rule does not necessarily mean wise rule...
...beginning of my summer has been spent flying from city to city at a moment’s notice, living in a hotel out of a well-packed duffle-bag, getting finger-printed for access at work and being legally bound to secrecy in all my endeavors. If I had heard about this job description a month ago, I would have sworn I was working as a double-0 agent for MI6, Britain’s intelligence agency, or that Ian Fleming could have just as easily made James Bond a summer intern at a consulting firm...
QUIDDITCH UPDATE! Harry makes his house team to play the broom-bound sport of wizards...
...Russian occupiers, Afghan warlords used Pakistan as a transshipment point for heroin and Karachi as a major point of export. Paid for in part by those narco-dollars were the vast shipments of small arms and Stinger missiles passing the other way through Karachi before being loaded onto trucks bound for Peshawar and eventually camels headed for Afghanistan's interior. Those drugs and the guns left a toxic residue that would become, for Karachi, a permanent blight...
...result, which hit video stores June 3, is a variety pack of visual styles, ranging from the hyper-realistic computer graphics employed in Final Flight of the Osiris, to the dreamy, hand-drawn doodles of Kid's Story. Each short expands the Matrix universe in ways that the plot-bound live-action films could not. The Wachowski-written Second Renaissance, Parts 1 and 2, mini-epics in their own right, describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard...