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Paul Krugman--Sage Advice for Democrats--NYTimes 1/2/04
January 2, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST Who's Nader Now? By PAUL KRUGMAN In the 2000 election, in a campaign that seemed driven more by vanity than by any realistic political vision, Ralph Nader did all he could to undermine Al Gore — even though Mr. Gore, however unsatisfying to the Naderites, was clearly a better choice than the current occupant of the White House. Now the Democratic Party has its own internal spoilers: candidates lagging far behind in the race for the nomination who seem more interested in tearing down Howard Dean than in defeating George Bush. The truth — which one hopes voters will remember, whoever gets the nomination — is that the leading Democratic contenders share a lot of common ground. Their domestic policy proposals are similar, and very different from those of Mr. Bush. Even on foreign policy, the differences are less stark than they may appear. Wesley Clark's critiques of the Iraq war are every bit as stinging as Mr. Dean's. And looking forward, I don't believe that even the pro-war candidates would pursue the neocon vision of two, three, many Iraq-style wars. Mr. Bush, who has made preemptive war the core of his foreign policy doctrine, might do just that. Yet some of Mr. Dean's rivals have launched vitriolic attacks that might as well have been scripted by Karl Rove. And I don't buy the excuse that it's all about ensuring that the party chooses an electable candidate. ( Read more... ) Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company |
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New Embassy in Iraq--Robin Wright in WashPost 1/2/04
By Robin Wright In preparation for ending its occupation of Iraq, the United States is making plans to create the The transition will mark the hand-over of responsibility for dealing with Iraq from the Pentagon to "The real challenge for the new embassy, so to speak, or the new presence will be helping the Iraqi One of the first steps will be resuming diplomatic relations between Washington and Baghdad. "Saddam broke off relations in 1991, and it requires a fairly complicated agreement to reestablish |
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New Music
Johnna Fisher wrote: Johnna Fisher - jwfisher@verizon.net hey this is what I am into these days. I used Peak, SampleTank, Pro-53, Reason and Digital Performer http://www.johnna.net/BeachArt.mp3 Personally I am challenged and excited I am producing commercially viable loops. Johnna |
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Case Study on Production and Marketing
John Whitbeck - jvwhitbeck@awalnet.net.sa TO: Distinguished Recipients FM: John Whitbeck As a change of pace from my usual Middle East-focused fare, I am sending along an article which appeared in the Christmas Eve issue of the International Herald Tribune and which should serve as a case study on production and marketing in all the world's business schools. Lesson: The unrestrained individual pursuit of "rational" economic self-interest does not always (if ever) produce a humane social policy.
"It is true that I have been turned down for marriage 12 times," Akot said. "But I built a very happy family, thanks to my knowledge of how to deal with wives." Akot may have the most wives in Rumbek County, local officials said, but his vast marriage is by no means unique in the region. One neighbor has more than 50 wives, and many others have more than a dozen. Insecurity amid the fighting, famine and disease of Africa's longest-running civil war can be blamed for the distortion of the traditional Dinka practice of marrying several wives, officials said. Health officials warn that this distortion has opened a dangerous infection route for AIDS. "From the health point of view it is a disaster when men have more than 12 wives," said Daniel Dutmayen, a Rumbek County medical officer, who has three wives. "The wives will begin extramarital affairs, and normal marriage breaks down."( Read more... ) |
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William S. Burroughs Jr.
My friend Rick Piel gave me a book called Speed by William S. Burroughs Jr... the son of William S. Burroughs. I noticed that he had a short life and wanted to know the cause of death and I found this link. http://www.altreel.com/cult-fiction/Bur Children: William S. Burroughs Jr. (died in 1981 of "acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage associated with micronodular cirrhosis") William S. Burroughs: Secret Agent in Hell"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." --William Blake Date of Birth: February 5, 1914 Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri Family: Mortimer & Laura Lee Burroughs, parents; Mortimer Burroughs Jr., brother; William S. Burroughs Sr., grandfather (inventor of the adding machine) Nicknames: William Lee, El Hombre Invisible, Cosmonaut of Inner Space, Elvis of American Letters, Godfather of Punk Literary Influences: Samuel Beckett (Malone Dies), Jack Black (You Can’t Win), Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night), Jean Cocteau (Opium), Samuel Coleridge, Joseph Conrad, Thomas DeQuincey (Confessions of an English Opium Eater), Jean Genet, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Alfred Korzybski (Science and Sanity), Oswald Spengler (Decline of the West), Denton Welch Education: Harvard University, B.A. (English Literature), 1936 Work Experience: Bartender, Private Detective, Factory Worker, Exterminator, Heroin Addict, Writer Crucial Year: 1944, Burroughs meets Times Square hustler Herbert Huncke; rolls drunks in subway; becomes a morphine addict Major Writings: Junkie (1953), Naked Lunch (1959), The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962), Nova Express (1964), The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (1971), Exterminator! (1973), Port of Saints (1979), The Place of Dead Roads (1984), Queer (1986), The Western Lands (1987), My Education: A Book of Dreams (1995) Lost Writing: The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (collaboration with Jack Kerouac), 1944( Read more... ) |
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William Pfaff on Iraq in IHT 1/3/04
[It's regrettable that Pfaff is not published in New York and Washington.] William Pfaff: Bush is ignoring the political lesson of Vietnam By William Pfaff (IHT) Saturday, January 3, 2004 PARIS: This year will be the year of all the answers. We will learn whether George W. Bush remains president of the United States. His fate will tell us whether the basic shift in American foreign policy he carried out will last beyond November 2004. We will discover whether the electorate supports pre-emptive and preventive war, mounted when a U.S. administration judges this necessary. We thus will know whether the Bush administration's National Strategy Statement of September 2002 represented a simple lapse in traditional military policy and ethics, or reflects a lasting rupture in how Americans think about the rest of the world. ( Read more... ) |
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Sex & Beauty, Art & Kitsch The exquisite mayhem of Benedikt Taschen by Brendan Bernhard  Taschen at home in the Chemosphere (Photo by William Claxton GERMANY'S KING OF THE COFFEE TABLE LIES FLAT ON his back on a slab of cold porcelain tile and stares through dim, misty light at paint flaking from the ceiling. Naked but for a floppy wool sauna hat, he is drying off after a cooling dip in the pool. It's his first visit to City Spa, and later he pronounces himself fully satisfied with the facilities. "Look, they even have wild animals here," he says, pointing at a plus-size cockroach frozen in place next to a NO SPITTING sign. "I like that." It's a quiet night at the spa, and Benedikt Taschen is in a mellow mood. I've never interviewed anyone in a sauna before, and the acoustics make conversation difficult anyway, so I decide to let him soak up the steam undisturbed. His status as an Important Person is quickly perceived by one of the regulars, who guesses that he's someone I'm writing about. He's not familiar with Taschen the publishing company, but when I mention the gargantuan Helmut Newton book, his face lights up in recognition. "Man, that book was ridiculous," he says, laughing. Viktor, the parking-lot attendant, noted his wealth the moment Taschen climbed out of his navy-blue Ford Explorer in his Stijn Helsen suit and handmade frog-skin shoes and thumbed through a wad of bills to pay the $1.50 parking fee. In any language, the timeless expression on Viktor's ruddy Moldavian face translated as: Big Shot. Taschen is a postmodern tycoon for the 21st century, a brash and stylish entrepreneur who has turned the world of illustrated-book publishing upside down. Along with his blond, leggy co-editor and wife, Angelika, the jet-setting 41-year-old German publisher produces exquisite coffee-table books that range in subject matter from the complete etchings of 18th-century Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the pornographic digital diaries of 21st-century Internet exhibitionist Natacha Merritt. Under the Taschen imprint, you will find impeccable, scholarly tomes (Masterpieces of Western Art), flashy compendiums of hip contemporary design (Designing the 21st Century) and lurid, twilight explorations of underground sexuality (Fetish Girls). These last, in particular, have made him notorious in what is traditionally a conservative division of the publishing world.( Read more... ) |
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