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...thinking of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which put Iowa's First District on its list of "vulnerable" Republican targets. And this wasn't just any Republican. This was the "righteous" Jim Nussle, who appeared on the House floor in 1991 with a paper bag over his head to express shame over the congressional bounced-check scandal...
...Azadeh Moaveni: I find it baffling. People obviously express concern over the possibility that they may soon find themselves in the middle of a war, but they're resigned to it. There's no frenetic anxiety, and nobody's behaving in ways you might expect from the residents of a city five miles from Iraq's frontline, which could easily come under attack by Saddam. They're going about their business as usual, and nobody appears to be hoarding food and medicine. Erbil, a stronghold of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Masoud Barzani, is a relatively conservative city when compared...
...significant, for it underlines an important aspect of her artistic philosophy. She abandoned literature in favor of visual art because she believed that "there is no greater reason to make art than to explore the world as it is", and that, by extension, a literary description could not possibly express the nature of a physical image as well as a visual representation of the image itself. Her point, then, is to let the real imagery of destruction speak for itself, to avoid prescription and interpretaion. She doesn't offer answers or criticisms, but the art alone, naked, unadorned...
...mini-train on Church Street took kids and their parents on a zigzag ride through the streets. For three dollars, Cambridge resident Tim Fitzgerald and his 18-month son Ronan rode the R&D Express, while wife Djamila looked on from the safety of the sidewalk...
...prove truth," says expert Geoffrey Robertson. This, he says, invites plaintiffs who are "prepared to lie and know that the media can't prove otherwise." In the absence of reforms that shift the burden of proof, says Robertson, piecemeal measures will have to suffice to protect freedom of expression: "One of the few things that can be done is to punish people who use libel laws as a form of gold digging. Those caught lying in the course of libel actions should be prosecuted." That's exactly what happened to Jeffrey Archer, the best-selling novelist and former Conservative Party...