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center of attention

The Rabbi and the Centerfold

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Among the isolated, out-of-step losers who dare open their mouths to mutter "doubts" about America's military campaign in Afghanistan, you will sometimes hear the traitorous comment: "This war is just about oil."

We here at the Global Eye take stern exception to such cynical tommyrot. No one who has made a clear and dispassionate assessment of the situation in the region could possibly say the new Afghan war is "just about oil."

It's also about drugs.

girls who wear glasses

"Nowadays, they do. Whether it’s Ted Koppel being made by the Iranian hostage crisis or Arthur Kent turning into the “Scud Stud” during the Gulf War, historic news stories have become the journalistic fast track to celebrity. And this happens so routinely that the search for the new media star is automatically built into coverage of the events themselves. Within hours of the attack on the World Trade Center, you could already hear people asking, “Who’s going to be made by this one?"

making copy

Will the FBI's most-wanted terrorist have his place in Time as the magazine's Man of the Year?

rain or shine

weatherbug has been a good addition to my tray. real time temps.

partition of the problem

on this day -- un votes to partition palestine
The United Nations Partition Plan
the question of palestine -- un overview
relevant maps

you give me fever

"Ominous news from Pakistan and Iran indicate that at best a viral pandemic may be brewing among Afghan refugees, at worst that former Soviet biological weapons have possibly made their first appearance."

reform school

"Following through on promises to curb religious extremism in the region, Musharraf is expected in the next week or two to impose strict new rules on the madrassas, or Islamic academies, some of which have nurtured young holy warriors for recruitment into Afghanistan's Taliban."

a snowballs chance

history of snowball earth

headline of the day

Dwarf Makes Pitch To Legalize Tossing

now cough

BERLIN (Reuters) - The anthrax attacks in the United States were probably the work of a member of a U.S. biological warfare program, the magazine of environment pressure group Greenpeace Germany reported Wednesday.

din of history

OSLO (Reuters) - The Viking god Odin may have been a real king who lived in what is now southern Russia 2,000 years ago, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl said in a controversial new book on Thursday.

so far away

hersh on iran
safire on iran

free wiily

wired williamsburg

general dismay

"It is amazing to me that Ashcroft is essentially trying to dismantle the bureau," said Oliver "Buck" Revell, a former FBI executive assistant director who was the primary architect of the FBI anti-terrorism strategy during the 1980s. "They don't know their history," he said, "and they are not listening to people who do."

all for one

"In a dazzling coup, Russian President Vladimir Putin stole a march on the Bush administration, which was so busy trying to tear apart Afghanistan to find bin Laden it failed to notice the Russians were taking over half the country."

summers end

"CAMBRIDGE - After a quiet few months as Harvard University's new president, former US treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers has begun using the post as a bully pulpit to forward a bold idea: In response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the academic world should get more in line with mainstream Americans. "

a word from our sponsors

"In cineplexes nationwide, it's hurry up and wait. Audiences are sitting longer than ever through what theater owners politely call the "pre-show." A generation or so ago, the pre-show might have meant a short comedy or a cartoon, and perhaps a couple of "coming attractions." Now the pre-show is all business, consisting of slides advertising local businesses, commercials for sneakers and sitcoms and an ever-growing number of trailers."

headline of the day

Global Ridicule Extinguishes Montgomery's Anti-Smoking Bill

sun burn

A group of investors including Mr. Black intends to spend up to $15 million to launch a new daily newspaper expected to appear sometime early next year, a source familiar with the venture told Off the Record. The paper, likely to be called The New York Sun, will be edited by former Forward editor in chief Seth Lipsky along with his protégé, Ira Stoll, the editor of Smartertimes.com, a Web site known for its critiques of The New York Times.

the powell principal

nytimes mag on colin powell

the official words

newsweek report on flight 93

shot to the dome

"A small town in England is a long way from the glitter, lights and fame of Hollywood, but that never stopped a young astromech from dreaming. With visions of movie stardom in his eye, Artoo left a family ruled by an emotionally distant father for the promised adventures of California."

assaulting sensibilities

assaulting liberties -- dershowitz
assaulting liberties -- siegel
assaulting liberties -- herman
assaulting liberties -- hentoff

rudy tuesday

"I'm Sir Rudy now, thank you. Chirac says I'm Mayor Rock. The Post says either Bin Laden or I will be Time's Man of the Year. I open Saturday Night Live surrounded by statues Bernie Kerick and Von Essen, together with 20 or so of the good ol' boys in uniform. I bond in the public mind with the FDNY by wearing a department shirt and hat at some appearances. I go from a UN speech denouncing murderers to a press conference hugging Kissinger. I make my own foreign policy by kicking a Saudi gift horse in the mouth. I make my own tax policy with my fund for firemen and police and the IRS caves. Unlike anywhere else in America where anthrax appears, I control the press briefings when it pops up here. Ever see any postal workers—or that high-pitched postal union clown—at one of my conferences?"

time for timer

time's inventions of 2001

come out and play

The Secret Warrior: Gen. Wayne Downing, From West Point to White House

academic pursuit

Academia Under Attack: Sketches For A New Blacklist

papal indemnities

ROME, Nov. 22 -- Pope John Paul II offered an apology today for sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, saying it has caused the victims "great suffering and spiritual harm" and has damaged the church.

thresh it out

The Thresher

bee careful

"Teaching bees to sniff out land mines is just one approach researchers are taking to exploit nature's amazing expertise"

smokehouse blues

"The Montgomery County Council yesterday approved one of the most restrictive anti-smoking measures in the nation, setting stiff fines for people who smoke in their homes if it offends their neighbors."

camoflaged intentions

Military Favors a Homeland Command
Forces May Shift To Patrolling U.S.

buddhalicious

Afghan Buddhas may be rebuilt

aftershocks

after kabul
Replacing the Taliban
Speculation Shifts to Baghdad

df halftime report

Sex Industry Sent Topsy-Turvy by Terror
Missing evidence from Oklahoma City
Small Vote for Universal Care
FBI Sitting on Flight 587 Videotape
Our friends in the North are just as treacherous and murderous

plane down

we know it crashed, but not why -- flight 93

eye of newt

gingrich alert

pump you up

The United States of oil

dust bin

Taleban abandon bin Laden

let there be light waves

Kabul TV Back on Air

ciafghans

cia at work in afghanistan

decrying game

laura bush decries taliban. dowd decries bush.

money where your mouth is

Progressive Asset Management Network

oil slick

U.S. Policy Towards Taliban Influenced by Oil - Say Authors ...again

green acres

A good nickname is hard to come by

the mummy speaks

"better hurry, imhopteps about to crash this party."

no secrets

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Flaunts Good Ratings

hindu stands

another festival of lights? youre celebrating diwali this week, right?

df picayune

Surrender or die, Alliance tells entranched Taliban fighters
Listen up, Ashcroft
End-Running the Bill of Rights
Phillip Morris is considering rebranding
little babs bush drops 10g on skimpyware
Digital Bruce Lee to Star in New Movie

df gazette

Ethel the Blog
Bin Laden's nuclear secrets found
FBI and Secret Service pay a visit Houston Art Museum

german measles

the k man

first pope, then supreme court justice, now basketball coach for life

df globe and mail

Taliban-Held Western Aid Workers May Be Free
guerrillas in the midst
Airport news censorship angers many travelers

times traveller

150 years of the ny times

df herald

nicholas lemann reviews teddy roosevelt bio
U.S. Army gassed the turnpike in '50s
copvcia

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dfu

FBI Rushes To Remake Its Mission
DEA Marijuana Madness
Heroin likely aiding Taliban effort

df evening news

gunning for saddam
bin laden and the cia
homeland insecurity
the role of the isi
God's Foreign Policy
A Just Cause, Not a Just War

trading places

in bloom

"And he cuts an outsize figure socially. An active philanthropist (who also donated to Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns) and partygoer on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he is known as a ladies' man, and the sort who rarely bothers to zip his lip. He is, he told New York magazine, the "boy toy" for his matchmaking female friends. Asked if he had ever smoked marijuana, he responded: "You bet I did, and I enjoyed it.""

df post-dispatch

A War We Cannot Win by John le Carré
Clinton calls terror a U.S. debt to past
Pundits Grasp at Political Tea Leaves
Intelligence Shakeup Would Boost CIA
Defectors Cite Iraqi Training for Terrorism
Bin Laden network 'plotted hundreds of attacks'
lingua franca out of business

coming up lame

Fifa Aims To Crack Down On Fake Injuries In World Cup

df daybreak

op-eds from edward said and others
yogi speaks
Bin Laden's Wildfire Threatens Saudi Rulers
doonesbury
Not Self-Defense Under International Law
the house of bin laden (nyker)
the church of churchill

suicide for peace

i guess this is what they mean when they say that the taliban fought like crazy. meet the new kamikazes.

delta faucets

new yorkers seymour hersh on special forces in afghanistan

nowhere to run

KANDAHAR: Afghan Foreign Minister Maulvi Wakil Ahmed Mutawakil has proposed one-to-one fight between President Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair and Taliban supreme leader Mulla Mohammad Omar to determine as to who stand and who will run in the fight.

mag lite

df overnight

moral equivalency exam
a shorn arundhati roy is profiled in the ny times
breathe, breathe in the (foul) air
yesterday in history: spruce goose
The CIA, the American oligarchy and the war in Afghanistan
concern for the overuse of anti-biotics
another nyt op-eder questions wisdom of israeli settlements
buffy: the musical

the agony of defeat

df daily mirror

diamonds are a terrorists best friend
in defense of the 90's
us academy of terror
did a cia operative meet with bin laden in july?
salem witches exonerated
Islamic Women Games Open in Iran
the one beer to have when youre having more than one
baseball contraction?
Why free speech is important as the U.S. drops cluster bombs
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
Abdul Haq argued against the American raids
more on bin laden and the cia plus connect the dots timeline

ethel alcohol

60s political posters
russian troops
carlyle group photo