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Still, the fact that today, for the first time, many American readers are beginning to buy books about Islam and the Middle East in large numbers, is a hopeful sign. Not all the news that people need to know is found in television and in newspapers; often in-depth information...
Some of the largest companies in the field--Bowne Global Solutions, Lionbridge Technologies and Berlitz GlobalNET (a sister company of the language school)--say they expect a surge in U.S. government contracts involving Arabic, Dari, Pashtu, Uzbek and other languages useful in the war against terrorism. But that's a...
The power of such a means of veiled yet brutally honest communication with Faculty cannot be underestimated. In fact, such an outlet for relatively anonymous, highly visible and responsive feedback might have prevented the recent tragedies in the chemistry department. For this reason, every department ought to have such a...
In the O.P., machismo was a fault and the military an archaic and expensive nuisance. The N.P. admires strong men and manly virtues--courage and self-sacrifice. In the Vietnam years, the massive "daisy-cutter" bomb represented everything brutal and inhumane about the American war; in Afghanistan last week, it...
Besides, figures like him are amusing, and even useful, to have around to visibly puncture the sanctimonious grandstanding of public figures. During the Gulf War, in a live CNN appearance alongside Charlton Heston, Hitchens asked the actor and NRA president to identify the countries that bordered Iraq. Stumped after naming...