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… delivered at the North Island naval air base near San Diego, was a typical rhetorical performance from the … into the waiting hands of the troops, Bush took pains to compare our current lot with that of the World War II … in any serious way. The film, told from the viewpoints of Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the commanding general of …

… as the revelatory Uncollected Poems ; in so doing, he has become Rilke’s best and most important ambassador to American … Emerson’s “transparent eyeball,” taking everything in, but also like the statues of Rilke’s mentor Rodin, which seem to … hopes to reveal in his poems. In Snow’s hands, Rilke becomes clear as glass—as if the poems could be windows …

… than in most other countries of Europe and America, was a complete surrender to the Gang. And they were impelled to … produces not merely the incalculable suffering of individuals we see all around us, but obviously threatens the … sterns to be this one which menaces the lives, the bodies, the minds, and the cultural achievements of millions …

… really wasn’t news. We have known that since the brave soldiers of General Lee’s army hopelessly shuffled home with … the historical reason, make necessary contemporary comparisons, and do something about it. The past, present, … — lawyers, business men, doctors, clergymen, public officials—either consciously or unconsciously serve the Lords of …

… fran001 / Flickr   The following post is part of our online companion to our  Spring 2013 issue on The Business of … we’d moved to Beirut. When we’d lived in Turkey, I had come to hate that city’s megalopolis, with all the yelling … East correspondent, which I do not need to tell you is a complicated thing for everyone involved. In Baghdad, her …