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Bin Laden stretches his definition of American aggression further. He blames the U.S. for the killing of Bosnian Muslims by Christian Serbs because of a U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia until 1994. He even counts in this category the 1992-94 mission by U.S. troops to mostly Muslim Somalia as...
American espionage was a clumsy toddler at first. (Some think it has not improved much with age and astronomical budgets.) F.D.R., magician and dissembler, improvised spy systems formal and informal. In the official line, he had the military's separate intelligence-gathering operations and the help of byzantine J. Edgar...
Roger Rosenblatt's commentary "The Age of Irony Comes to an End" cut through the facile playfulness of our postmodern world [VIEWPOINTS, Sept. 24]. Not only did 6,500 die, but postmodernism itself perished on Sept. 11. The idea that meaning is an individual construction and that there is no...
Somehow, though, both in his translations of the Odes and other work, Ferry manages to convey the poetic gist of the original. Robert Frost famously noted, “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” But, as Ferry makes so clear, Frost was only half correct...
In another successful segment, actors from the ART Institute performed, in an avant garde production, excerpts from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, adapted and directed by Mercedes Murphy. Dealing (in part) with the barren aftermath of the tragedy of World War I, the poem took on new...