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cheney reaction
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fat sells
bloody lentils
is your head on straight pins
why such a rush to severance
divide and concurrence
the star of dated (and nuts)
the thinnest mint/youre squinting
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pnac sack
somehow missed this link in my referrer logjam. ok, maybe not a logjam so much as a paperjam but either way thanks for the nod to pnac.info. long may you rein in.
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since you ask
(for the nonsense crude)
chilled to the boner
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alone again or
traced
on the ceiling
sieging is believing
scrawled
on the floorboards
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j-scholar
"Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University, said yesterday that Nicholas Lemann, the Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, had agreed to become dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, an appointment that comes at a pivotal time for the school.
Mr. Lemann, 48, is a highly respected journalist who has worked as a reporter and editor at The Washington Monthly, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly and The Washington Post."
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art officials
"Why did the US fail to protect the museum? To the extent that the ACCP would rather see anquities on the market rather than locked up in "retentionist" state museums, the group's recommendations may have struck a respondant chord among the Pentagon's neoconservative ideologues. Neoconservatives see state-owned libraries, archives, and museums as residues of socialism and are working to transfer public library and museum assets to private concerns.. Were the troops instructed to stand by while the museum looting took place? This seems unlikely; after all, the troops failed to protect hospitals as well as museums, and may have violated the Hague Convention in their failure to do so.* It seems that no plans were developed for protecting the Iraqi people's assets in the conflict's aftermath."
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conséquences graves
"The fall of France was astonishingly swift. After regime change in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, it was only a matter of time before Tony Blair and George W. Bush said that they had “no plans” to attack France. The detested Jacques Chirac had long been a thorn in their sides. He was a past friend of Saddam Hussein, welcomed Arab exiles and had a suspiciously large Muslim population. Above all, he refused point-blank to disband his force de frappe weapons of mass destruction. As Donald Rumsfeld had said back in 2003: “Things mean consequences.” France posed a clear and immediate threat. The coalition acted in pre-emptive self-defence. It was a pity about the Louvre."
via booknotes
fire sail
"What happened to the Royal Library of Alexandria? We can be certain it was there once, founded by Ptolomy II Soter, and we can be equally certain it is not there now. It formed part of the Museum which was located in the Bruchion or palace quarter of the city of Alexandria. This great ancient city, occupying a spit of land on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, had been founded by Alexander the Great in his flying visit to Egypt and became the capital of the last dynasty of Pharaohs descended from Alexander's general Ptolemy. The Great or more properly Royal Library formed a part of the Museum but whether or not it was a separate building is unclear."
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