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HANKS Oh, no, I think you're wrong. I think some of them are very specifically about Iraq, and I don't know if you can make a war movie about Iraq until we have some distance on what has happened in Iraq because I don't think you can make a fake movie by going to Marrakech or Death Valley and putting guys in desert commando outfits and having them shoot at extras with special-effects helicopters flying around and have that be more insightful than what I can get off of YouTube by typing in "combat footage from...
...writer and Kentucky native Elizabeth Hardwick was born in the wrong region for someone who aspired to be a "New York Jewish intellectual." So she moved north and got a Ph.D. at Columbia. In 1945 she drew comparisons to Eudora Welty with her first novel, The Ghostly Lover. After writing for the Partisan Review, though, Hardwick became better known as a critic, co-founding the highbrow New York Review of Books in 1964 and producing such collections as Seduction and Betrayal, now standard reading for the study of women in fiction. Hardwick...
Assuming it has, the conclusion drawn by some--that this means Iran has abandoned its nuclear ambitions--is not just wrong but also contradicted by the NIE itself. Suspension does not mean abandonment. The program can be restarted at any time. The fact that huge amounts are still being spent on uranium enrichment and missile development--the other essentials for a nuclear-weapons program--while the weaponization part remains dormant is overwhelming evidence of a country that wants to go nuclear but is being restrained by international pressure...
Which is why the critics' claim that this NIE report is a mandate for a new and soft Iranian policy is wrong. John Edwards immediately said the report justified his vote against designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization and imposing sanctions on it. But the NIE's major conclusion is that Iran calibrates its nuclear efforts--including the suspension of the weaponization part--in a real-world cost-benefit reaction to outside pressure. It makes the case precisely for sanctions...
...ever worry that your ironic use of sexism and racism will be construed as real? -Kevin Ilettnottingham, EnglandI don't want to get the wrong laugh. But I think it's quite obvious that it's ironic. I'm not one of those comedians that think comedy is your conscience taking a day off. My conscience never takes a day off. I can justify every joke...