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...decision to invade Iraq? A classic pre-imperial move, oblivious to the complex global consequences of one nation's actions within the powerful web of Empire. But the authors insist that Empire has an upside, that it creates an opportunity for a different kind of democracy, one that would encompass the world. Their latest tome, Multitude (Penguin Press; 427 pages), tells us how that will happen...
...casino operators are placing their biggest bets on China, where the Middle Kingdom's age-old penchant for gambling is dovetailing with the world's fastest-growing economy. Chinese millionaires are being minted every day, and the World Trade Organization predicts that the country's booming middle class will encompass half a billion people by 2014. "And frankly," says MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni, "there's not much to do with that money there to enjoy yourself...
...He’s able to encompass so many pursuits: the future doctor, student of ancient Greek poetry, firefighter extraordinaire and unflinching Republican,” Watson says. “There is no segment of his life in which he does not have the drive to excel...
...word has been more regrettably hijacked in politics than “morality.” Somewhere along the line, its political meaning came to encompass only private morality, the morality of sleeping only with one’s spouse and, if possible, not being a lawyer. It is an enduring outrage of the Clinton era that men who spent their careers undermining human rights, international order and social justice made their names in Congress by positioning themselves as defenders of a morality defined exclusively by sexual conduct. These cannot be the boundaries of morality. There is such a thing...
...first book devoted to male body image issues, The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession, was published only four years ago. The book’s authors coined the term “The Adonis Complex” to encompass the widespread phenomenon of compulsive male body maintenance behavior, which ranges from muscle dysmorphic disorder (an obsessive desire to get bigger) to anorexia, bulimia and steroid abuse...