Musings on Murkier Aspects of Humans, War and Politics
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Reviews of "Radio:30" at the Puffin Room; "A is for Aardvark" at the Studio at Cherry Lane Theater; "Let There Be Light!" at 440 Studios, among others.
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Past presidential candidates and their critics have been known to shade the truth for political purposes. But to memory researchers, it doesn't take intentional falsifying to understand the discrepancies in the retelling of Sen. John Kerry's war experiences.
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Sex, happiness, time, culture, exchange and mind. Money in all its guises.
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By JOHANN HARI  In the black gloop of down-beat news on global warming and Iraq, we sometimes forget that, in at least one respect, we are living through a shimmering moment of progress that should fill us with awe.
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It is difficult to find anything positive about war, but the pictures in the news of children and their military fathers loving each other have been heart-rending. They remind us that there is nothing on Earth more precious and sacred than the love between fathers and their children.
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."
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TONY EASTLEY: It&#39;s less than a month now until the United States election and terrorism and the war in Iraq continue to dominate that campaign, to the virtual exclusion of other issues.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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By Donna Borak Associated Press  WASHINGTON - For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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Coercion doesnât work. Empathy is a more powerful tool than you might think. A veteran Air Force interrogator who grilled prisoners in Iraq talks about how to gather information during wartime.
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Squabbling over who served tainted what to whom masks deeper rifts.
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Fighting fires and facing incoming spittle, stabbings and Molotov cocktails: Is it all part of the job?.
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Incidents of civilian deaths in airstrikes and other military action by international forces in Afghanistan:
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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Reader Suchet Bal sends us his experiences.
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Some in Iraq question how and why war is being waged.
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For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.