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Terry Malloy

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On July 2, 2004
Moment of silence for the late, great Marlon Brando. A Streetcar Named Desire On the Waterfront The Young Lions Julius Caesar The Godfather Last Tango in Paris Apocalypse Now The Freshman The Score See Matt Duss, as well.
From Tacitus on Ralph Nader: Apropos of the efforts of some Republicans to secure a ballot slot for Ralph Nader, let me say that it’s a moderately understandable tactical move and a terrible strategic one. Obviously a Nader presence is going to siphon off lefty votes that would otherwise have gone to Democrats (his bizarre protestations […]

GW, JC, and Turkey

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On June 29, 2004
Good post at Crooked Timber about Turkish prospects in the EU. Here’s Chirac letting GW have it for meddling in European affairs by arguing that Turkey should be a member. And here’s Digby being, I think, a bit unfair. There are a few reasons why some EU member states don’t want let Turkey in. Turkish human rights policy […]

F-911

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On June 26, 2004

Saw Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday afternoon. Lots of people outside the Neptune selling anti-Bush paraphenalia, a few gathering signatures. One guy wandering around with a display trying to convince Dems

Henry

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In Robert Farley
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On June 25, 2004
Interesting discussion over at Crooked Timber regarding this story from the Chronicle of Higher Education (thank you, Cathy, for the subscription, although I haven’t actually had the opportunity to read any of them). Apparently, Henry Kissinger has been putting the screws to the editors of Foreign Affairs because they’ve been running a debate on whether or not […]

North Korea

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On June 25, 2004

I don’t think most people understand just how colossally the Bush administration has fucked up the North Korea situation. The media story suggests that is has been an intractable problem and tha

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