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...they’re the latest to present the issue of creative aimlessness in a way that’s accessible to the people that are most affected by it: contemporary indie music lovers.Manhattan group Vampire Weekend, however, is the most recent group to try to posit a solution. To give you an idea of their sound: if African chanteuse Angélique Kidjo produced a mash-up cover of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and the Talking Heads’ “(Anything But) Flowers” that was performed...
...friends the neoconservatives, the folks who provided the intellectual rationale for Bush's war in Iraq, many of whom are now itching for a war with Iran. Norman Podhoretz, the neocon paterfamilias, has written a trifle called World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism and loves to posit Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden-a far more dangerous character-as the heirs to Hitler and Stalin. "They follow the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism," he writes. This is incendiary foolishness. Terrorists have the ability to wreak terrible damage intermittently, but they don't represent an existential threat...
...their lives, with the politics of their home governments," said Mueller. "And as talk moves to action, an extremist can become a terrorist." Says Ron Suskind, author of The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11: "You find a reversal of the general posit that it is sufficient that 100 guilty men go free so that one innocent man is not convicted. It's now sound that 100 innocent men are swept up so that one guilty man not slip away...
Kaavya Viswanathan did not fall, as some would posit, from the glorious perch of a published author. Kaavya’s roost was atop the same rickety tower of meritocracy that so many of us built on our way to our Harvard admission...
...CONFESSED. WICHAI SOMKHAOYAI, 24, and BUALOI POSIT, 23, Thai fishermen; to the Jan. 1 murder of British tourist Katherine Horton, a crime that could carry the death penalty; on the resort island of Koh Samui, Thailand. The two admitted to abducting Horton as she was walking on the beach, and to beating and raping the 21-year-old before dumping her body in the sea. Thai officials, concerned that the crime has hurt the country's image as a tourist destination, have fast-tracked Wichai and Bualoi's trial; their sentence is expected to be delivered this week...