Friday, January 26, 2007

Kafka in Canada

Good Morning. A few items for the weekend...

  • Maher Arar is the Syrian-born wireless technology consultant American authorities detained on false information from Canada, then "rendered" to Syria, where Arar was imprisoned and tortured for almost a year before his release. Canada cleared him of all suspicions. The Americans refuse to remove him from a terrorist watch list. See "The Hounding of Maher Arar"
Plenty more in the Daily Journal. Thanks for reading.pt
Plenty

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Herbert Tippen Davidson Jr., 1925-2007

Good morning,

On Tuesday morning, Herbert Davidson, third-generation owner of the last major family-owned newspapers in Florida, died. A personal tribute, "Colossus of Heart and Verve."

  • Hezbollah is at it again in Lebanon, edging the country toward civil war: See "Lebanon's Slide."

Much more in the Daily Journal. Thanks for reading.pt

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Education's Heists

Good Morning. A couple of new items today...

  • What's the purpose of education--to manufacture workers or mold individuals? The "free" market drives the answer. See Pierre's Tuesday Column, "Cogs and Ends: Education's Heist?"
  • Anthony Swofford scored big with Jarhead, his memoir of the first Gulf War. His first novel, Exit A, draws less than pink mist. See "Jarhead Shoots Blanks."
Plenty more in the Daily Journal. Thanks for reading.pt

Monday, January 22, 2007

Bush the Empire Slayer

Good morning. A few items from the weekend...

  • Bernard Chazelle, a computer science professor at Princeton, contributes a terrifically written piece that sums up the Bush years in red white and blight: See "Bush the Empire Slayer."
  • The war on terror's great delusion? That Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are American allies, when they are, in fact, al-Qaeda's enabling axis. See "Pakistan, Bush and the Taliban"
  • Can Bach--or any classical music--be translated into words? Not likely. But don;t let that stop you from trying. See "For the Love of Bach."
Plenty more in the Daily Journal. Thanks for reading.pt