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| Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:00:00 EST Three cases of murder charges against U.S. troops |
| Each day in Iraq a new savagery is committed by terrorists: roadside bombings, kidnappings, beheadings, and mutilation. Most recently, two U.S. soldiers were captured in an insurgency stronghold, tortured and beheaded. In that madness, the American military now is faced with a problem that may seem like a perversion of reality–that is, dealing with allegations that in some instances its own troops are using barbaric means to kill Iraqis and detainees in the three-year-old conflict. But the political and propaganda implications are enormous and the military is taking it very seriously–and stirring up pained reactions in the process. |
| Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Our culture is what sets us apart |
| The only things that "every community in the world from Zanzibar to Hamburg recognizes in common" are American cultural artifacts--the jeans and the colas, the movies and the TV sitcoms, the music, and the rhetoric of freedom. That observation was made 65 years ago by Henry Luce in his essay "The American Century," but--to paraphrase President Reagan--Luce hadn't seen anything yet. We have lived through an astounding acceleration in the dissemination of American cultural values with profound implications for the rest of the world. As Plato is widely quoted as having said, "Those who tell the stories rule society." |
| Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:00:00 EST Glint from the U.S. Mint |
| Uncle Sam is finding out just how hard it is to time the commodities market. |
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