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C’era una volta in America
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Could Texas Become a Blue State? : The New Yorker
“Though the day-to-day exchanges were often trivial, the underlying dynamics of the election were deadly serious, and everybody knew what they were. As both candidates repeatedly said, it was about what sort of country we want to be. Now, the American public has rendered a judgement.”
Two debates took place in Boca Raton on Monday night, one embedded inside the other. Given that the candidates and moderator had only ninety minutes to work with, the intrusion of domestic issues couldn’t have helped but take away from the foreign-policy discussion. That is a cause for real regret—the world they talked about didn’t extend much beyond the Middle East and China anyway. But taken on its own terms, the second, shadow debate was not a bad one. It was surprisingly detailed, and the exchanges were in some ways more direct than the ones on foreign policy and even more so than previous ones on domestic issues. Despite the assumption that any mention of the economy would be bad for the President, it was also a fight Obama largely controlled. He won a solid victory on foreign policy in large part because he was more coherent than Romney in talking about things that had nothing to do with foreign policy.
Amy Davidson on the two debates in Boca Raton last Monday night: http://nyr.kr/XeYwAq
Read Dexter Filkins on Romney’s foreign policy and Evan Osnos on the candidates’ comments about China, and see our full coverage of the Presidential debates.
Photograph by Nikki Kahn/Washington Post/Getty.
Syria government 'agrees to Eid al-Adha ceasefire'
Eid al-Adha, the Festival of the Sacrifice, is celebrated by Muslims to commemorate the willingness of Abraham to sacrifice his son Ishmael as proof of obedience to God.
Eid was the one time of year from the age of 6 to 9 when I was able to watch TV, the one time of year when Ninja Turtles was on TV in English. That might actually have been Eid al-Fitrm I don’t really remember… either way, I’m glad I got into reading from an early age. More broadly, it annoys me the extent to which most Judeo-Christians fail to recognize how much Islam has in common with them. The Islamic Caliphate preserved a lot of the wisdom of ancient Greece and Rome, while learning in Christendom was dead. I have always considered the Islamic world to be a part of the west, at least compared to somewhere like China.
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Day of the Tentacle was some of the best adventure gaming ever.
