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...Blankets" has officially arrived, debuting to significant buzz at the MOCCA Art Festival (see TIME.comix coverage). Anticipation was high thanks to Thompson's previous (and first) book, 1999's "Good Bye Chunky Rice." An allegorical fantasy about lost friendships that featured cute talking animals and oddball characters, fans of "Chunky Rice" will be surprised at the change in Thompson's approach. No longer allegorical, "Blankets" is grounded in autobiographical reality. Yet "Blankets" has the thematic sophistication, emotional sweep and beauty of (visual) language that mark the best novels of any kind...
...months, Bush administration officials used the threat of nuclear terrorism to direct Americans’ fear of terrorist attacks towards Iraq, in an effort to rally support for invasion. According to the Los Angeles Times, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said on Sept. 9, 2002, “We don’t want the ‘smoking gun’ to be a mushroom cloud.” A month later, President Bush said, “The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.” As late as mid-March 2003, Vice...
Yesterday HDS Dean William A. Graham and HDS Assistant Dean for Student Life Belva B. Jordan sent two letters to officials including President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, the American ambassador to Russia and National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice...
...fields and standing guard over girls' schools. This is being done in the name of an Administration whose members openly despised Clinton's habit of using the armed forces for missions short of war. ("We don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten," said Condoleezza Rice, now National Security Adviser, to the New York Times in 2000.) As for Liberia, all the key phrases last week - the need for clearly defined missions and exit strategies, the desperate attempt to swear that, honest, only a couple of hundred American soldiers would ever go to West Africa - were...
...demographic might of the baby boomers, finally coming to terms with their mortality, that has sent the $17 billion funeral and cemetery industry scrambling. "Boomers have changed every market they've come across," says Bill Burns, a funeral-services analyst with the New Orleans brokerage firm Johnson Rice & Co. "Why not death...