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...York City—the ’75 Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” showed that even the federal government had given up hope on the cesspool the city had become. Coated in a mob-thriller plot and realist filming techniques, this exploration of the nature of friendship continues to be relevant, amusing, and heartbreaking almost 30 years later...
...occupation and ideological infighting. That perception was given a boost last week by Bush's announcement that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the chief architect of the war in Iraq, would leave the Pentagon to take over as head of the World Bank--another sign that Rice and her realist deputies have gained the upper hand over their neoconservative rivals at the Defense Department. In policy, too, the Administration has shown a new willingness to work with allies, most recently by signing on to European efforts to negotiate an end to Iran's nuclear program. Says a French diplomat...
...last week that they’ll be publishing a parody of Premiere magazine, which apparently still exists. The punchline? The Poonsters had to get permission. Please. Did Fred Gwynne need permission to throw a baby carriage down Mount Auburn Street? Did John Updike need permission to write witty realist novels? We think...
...what do we attribute this Arab spring? While American (and European) liberal and "realist" critics are seeking some explanation, those a bit closer to the scene don't flinch from the obvious. "It is strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq," Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt explained to David Ignatius of the Washington Post. "I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people...
Turns out, the critics, liberal and "realist," got the Arab street wrong. In Iraq and Lebanon, the Arab street finally got to speak, and mirabile dictu, it speaks of freedom and dignity. It does not bay for American blood. On the contrary, its leaders now openly point to the American example and American intervention as having provided the opening for this first tentative venture in freedom...