| Fame comes with a lot of baggage
Mohammed Atif Siddique was found guilty of a string of terrorism offences. However, during his trial, defence and prosecution had argued over whether the 21-year-old IT student had been actively promoting atrocities or was merely a "stupid young man" researching Islamic terrorism on the internet.On the day the United States remembered the 11 September attacks, Osama bin Laden appeared in a video message praising the 19 "champions" who murdered 3,000 people. Bin Laden mentioned other colleagues who'd "fulfilled their promises to God" by getting killed, before concluding: "And now it is our turn." However, he himself declines to go on suicide missions, preferring to carry out vital work in the rear, earning him the nickname "Captain al-Darling".Bin Loony looked well in the video, with his beard miraculously black after its previous grey.
East Timor president asks nation to forgive Suharto
But with the former general in critical condition in hospital, it looks increasingly unlikely he will ever face trial for human rights abuses or graft. The head of the medical team, who on Sunday gave Suharto a 50:50 chance of surviving, said there was still an equal chance of a recovery or deterioration in the former general's condition. "But we are optimistic. Pak Harto still has a strong will to live," Mardjo Soebiandono told a news conference, referring to Suharto by his popular name. Djusuf Misbach, a neurologist treating Suharto, said the former president was still showing responses, but because he was sedated it was difficult to assess that. .
Low-flow governor
But I've also appreciated Fred's unwillingness to be somebody he is not. He will not respond like a puppet when a debate moderator tells him to raise his hand to signify a childishly simplistic approval or disapproval of a certain policy. He will not be goaded by interviewers into saying things he doesn't feel comfortable saying. He won't divide us with class envy or pretend we can be friends with rogue regimes or terrorists. He does not promise a chicken in every pot or pander to liberals on global warming. {{{{{He will not otherwise tailor his positions to suit the demands of particular constituencies. For example, he has the courage to preach that Social Security is in trouble, but unlike most others, he doesn't surrender to the oppressive populist seduction to urge government fixes for it or for health care.
Glenn Greenwald
In her Wall St. Journal column today, Peggy Noonan offers up a Santa-like checklist of which presidential candidates are "reasonable" and which ones aren't. In describing the attributes that Americans want in a President, she says: "I claim here to speak for thousands, millions." On behalf of the throngs for whom she fantasizes she speaks, Noonan proclaims: "We are grown-ups . . . We'd like knowledge, judgment, a prudent understanding of the world and of the ways and histories of the men and women in it." This grown-up then proceeds to pronounce that Romney, McCain, Giuliani, Thompson and Duncan Hunter are all "reasonable" -- as are Biden, Dodd, Richardson and Obama (though too young and inexperienced to be President) -- but this is what she says about John Edwards:John Edwards is not reasonable.
Archives for: July 2007
It's comprised of pieces of tracing paper taped together and was typed from the notebooks in which Kerouac had written segments of the book as they happenedAs he set out, albeit unwittingly, to change the literary landscape, Jack Kerouac started off by going the wrong way. Sixty years ago this month – July 17, 1947, to be exact – Kerouac, then 25, left his mother's house in the Ozone Park district of Queens, New York, on the first of four treks around the United States and into Mexico that would lead to the publication 10 years later of his autobiographical novel On The Road. September will mark the book's half century. It remains a steady seller. Biographies and critical studies of the father of the Beat Generation appear regularly. Kerouac, who was already developing a drinking problem when he hit the highways, died in 1969, aged 47.
Green To Gold Author Dan Esty to Keynote at Good And Green - The Green ...
HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading green marketing expert and author of Green To Gold Dan Esty will give brands insight into how they can use their environmental strategy to innovate, create value and build competitive advantage during his keynote presentation at Good And Green - The Green Marketing Conference, November 29-30, 2007, Chicago Cultural Center. Good And Green is designed to teach mainstream national marketers the techniques, benefits and bottom line impact of connecting with today's ecologically-concerned consumers through green marketing efforts. "Brands that simply see the eco-movement as a trend and do things that are green in symbolism but not in substance are taking a green-washing approach that is fundamentally unsuccessful as a strategy," says Esty.
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