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I scanned all the cheap effusions that followed the Bob Kerrey disclosures, looking for just one mention of just one name. Ron Ridenhour. Ron was the GI who got wind of the My Lai massacre, followed up on what he'd heard, complained to the higher-ups and, when that didn't work, blew the whistle to the press (which took about a year to print anything). He was a friend of mine and by any known test an American hero. Except that there is a strong tendency in all cultures and all societies to hate people like Ron. By his simple and principled action, he destroyed all the excuses of those who say that war is hell and "whaddayagonnado." He was from Texas whiteboy stock and an uneducated draftee; call him a grunt--he wouldn't have minded. His example demolishes both those who say that only combat-hardened men can judge other veterans, and those who shiftily maintain that those who weren't actually there have no business making judgments. Ron wasn't at My Lai, but he'd seen quite enough to know that the rumors of what had happened were probably true, and he felt obliged to check them out, and to risk his own skin to do so.
Things evidently happened rather fast in the village of Thanh Phong on February 24, 1969. Calley's platoon in March 1968 had taken much of a day in which to really work on the villagers of My Lai. Nonetheless, even given more leisure, Bob Kerrey would not I think have raped any of the women, cut off any ears, disemboweled any babies or tortured any of the prisoners. He never went around referring to the Vietnamese as "gooks" or "slopes" or "slants." Whenever the subject of war came up in Washington during his tenure as a senator, he was a sane and lucid voice. And I should add that I know him somewhat and that, since I'm a lowly adjunct prof at the New School, he is actually my president.
By the end of his week before the cameras, however, I began to wish that he wasn't. If you have had more than three decades to reflect, and some weeks of advance notice on top of that, you don't have to rise to the Ron Ridenhour standard. But you must not disgrace it. It is, I suppose, arguable that both Gerhard Klann (a man in possession of a somehow unfortunate name) and the Vietnamese witnesses are all under a misapprehension. But neither the New York Times Magazine nor 60 Minutes II gave them any chance to compare notes or concert their story. And then Kerrey, confronted by the contradictions of his own account, said the following: "The Vietnam government likes to routinely say how terrible Americans were. The Times and CBS are now collaborating in that effort." This was a sad improvisation of paltry lies, adding up to a lie on the Spiro Agnew scale. (As this was going to press, Kerrey told me that he's written to the Times to withdraw at least the "collaborating" part.)
Nobody troubled to report an even worse moment at Kerrey's press conference, which occurred when the invaluable Amy Goodman asked him about the command responsibility for war crimes borne by the Nixon-Kissinger architects of the aggression. (He was, after all, under orders in a "free-fire zone" to treat all civilians as potential cadavers and all cadavers as part of the enemy "body count"; he did accept a citation for carrying out this standing policy.) I can appreciate that Kerrey might not have wanted to seem to shift responsibility; the Ridenhour standard makes it plain that you can't be ordered to commit crimes against humanity. However, such a standard must not be twisted for the purposes of moral relativism. Kerrey answered Goodman's inescapable question by focusing entirely on his own need to "get well." He thus excused himself--and his political "superiors."
The date of the "firefight" is almost unbearable to contemplate. February 24, 1969, is about a month after Nixon took the oath of office. It's about two months after he asked Henry Kissinger to be his National Security Adviser. It's about three months after the South Vietnamese military junta withdrew precipitately from the Paris peace negotiations. And it's about four months after the Nixon campaign made a covert approach to that same junta in order to incite it to do so, and to take out an illegal and treasonous mortgage on another four years of war, as well as to subvert an American election. (For still more evidence of this historic crime, see most recently Robert Mann's A Grand Delusion: America's Descent Into Vietnam, published by Basic Books.) One must of course sympathize with Kerrey's pain. Only a few weeks after Thanh Phong, Kerrey lost a healthy limb to Nixon's sick design. But even the most tentative judgment requires that we give moral priority to the more than 20,000 US servicemen who died after the sabotage of the Paris talks, and to the uncountable number of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians who were immolated as a result of the same despicable policy.
We should also abandon easy nonjudgmental relativism and give moral priority to men like Hugh Thompson, Lawrence Colburn and Glenn Andreotta. These three were flying over My Lai in their helicopter on March 16, 1968, and saw Charlie Company butchering the inhabitants with no "enemy" in sight. Thompson not only grounded his chopper between the remaining civilians and his fellow Americans, he drew his weapon and told the murderers to back off. This was no impulsive gesture; he took some civilians away with him and then returned. Andreotta (who was killed three weeks later) found a small child in one of the corpse-choked ditches and managed to save him. Exactly thirty years after the atrocity, Thompson, Colburn and--posthumously--Andreotta were awarded the Soldier's Medal in a ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It's the highest award you can get for an action that doesn't involve engaging "the enemy." There was no mention of their awkward bravery in the recent coverage, either, though as far as was possible, these three men lived up to one of our current dopey mantras, which is to "leave no child behind."
If Kerrey wishes he could say the same, rather than have left a pile of children behind him, then he has missed several opportunities to do so. His official statement was entirely about himself. It did not in fact come clean about what happened. And it did not contain one word of contrition for the action, or of sympathy for the victims. It was also internally inconsistent in other ways. The war, he said, hadn't become unpopular until 1969. Whatever this was supposed to mean, it didn't explain his accepting a Medal of Honor from Richard Nixon on May 14, 1970, in a ceremony that he now claims he knew was a tawdry and stagy bid for public opinion, and in the immediate aftermath of the assault on Cambodia and the killings of lawful protesters at Kent State and Jackson State.
Talking of universities, I was ashamed and disgusted to read the statement put out by the authorities at the New School. Here it is in full: "The Board of Trustees of New School University gives its unqualified support to Bob Kerrey. It is hard for most of us to imagine the horrors of war. War is hell. Traumatic events take place and their terrible effects may last a lifetime. We should all recognize the agony that Bob has gone through and must continue to deal with. We should also recognize that Bob's heroism and integrity have been demonstrated on many occasions. The Board of Trustees stands solidly behind him."
I try to teach English to humorous and intelligent graduates at this place. I could and will use this pathetic text--signed by John Tishman and Philip Scaturro, respectively chairman of the board and chancellor--as a case study in subliterate euphemism. ("What about Bob?" Leave no cliché behind!) But it is worse than it looks. Notice the insistence that only Kerrey's feelings count. And notice the insinuation that wartime actions are above moral distinction or discrimination. The New School, founded by some antimilitarist defectors from the then-conformist Columbia University at the end of the First World War, became the host campus for dozens of anti-Nazi refugee scholars in the succeeding decades. It gave podiums to Erich Fromm and Hannah Arendt, in lecture rooms where the nature of political evil was thoroughly discussed. It still runs democracy programs from Kosovo to South Africa. Its student body is multinational and always has been. A word or two about the slaughtered Vietnamese might not have been out of place. But this graceless little handout didn't even refer to them. Unrepudiated, the statement is a direct insult to everybody at the school and a surreptitious invitation to a creepy kind of secondhand complicity in murder.
I've no wish to hurt Kerrey's feelings unduly, but it ill becomes him to act as if he's facing a firing squad while he's being made the object of apparently limitless empathy. The truth of the matter is that I can't guess what these "many occasions" of "heroism and integrity" have been. (I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that the New School authorities aren't counting the Thanh Phong massacre.) He was a fairly decent senator, as I've already said. But he showed then, as he shows now, a pronounced tendency to have things both ways. Like the Moynihans and the Gores, he was fond of privately denouncing Clinton as a crook and a liar and a thug, and then casting the ultimate vote in his favor. He told me in the week of the impeachment trial that he was determined to vote to convict Clinton for obstruction of justice, adding rather irrelevantly that it "wouldn't do him any harm" in his home state of Nebraska. And then, maybe when he remembered that he'd steered the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee through one of the greatest fundraising bonanzas in history, he thought better of it. "They all do it," of course, but then they needn't expect moist tributes for their bravery.
And yet--they don't all do it. Think again of Ridenhour, Thompson, Colburn, Andreotta--names that are barely known, names of men who would have been ashamed to leave a ditchful of women and children behind them, or to watch such a ditch being filled and say and do nothing. And think of what a great wall we'd have to build if we intended to inscribe all the Indochinese names. There's no possible repair or apology that could measure up to such a vast crime. But this must not mean a culture of stupid lenience and self-pity, in which the only wounds to be healed are those of the perpetrators, or of their obedient servants. How wonderful that at last we are forgiving the people of Vietnam for what we did to them.
There are war crimes and there is the crime of war, and it's ethically null to say that only veterans can pronounce on either. (There could be no human rights tribunals or Truth and Justice Commissions if this were so.) Kerrey was not caught in an ambush or suddenly placed in a hopeless situation. He led a stealthy, deliberate incursion into other people's homes, and the first act of those under his command was to slit the throats of an elderly couple and three children to keep them from making a sound. Kerrey now says that he didn't enter that particular "hooch" before, during or after--something of an oversight for the team leader, whose job it was to ascertain the nature of the opposition. He says it was a moonless night; the US Naval Observatory says there was a 60 percent disk until an hour after the squad had finished up....
This horror occurred in the context of two others: the Phoenix program and Operation Speedy Express. The first has been acknowledged even by its architects as a death-squad campaign, and the second was exposed at the time, by Kevin Buckley of Newsweek, as a mass slaughter of the civilians of the Mekong Delta. In other words, it's a bit late for armchair supporters of the war, or armchair excuse-makers, to discover indecipherable subjective mysteries where none in fact exist. Kerrey's after-action report on Thanh Phong, for which he received a Bronze Star citation, reads, in a vile code compounded of cruelty and falsification: "21 VC KIA (BC)." That stands for twenty-one Vietcong, killed in action according to body count. Did he accept that medal as part of coming to terms with how haunting it all was?
The humanoid who came up with the shady term "Vietnam syndrome" was of course Henry Kissinger, who had every reason to try to change the subject from his own hideous responsibility. But even now, the president of a humanist academy takes up that same pseudo-neutral tone of therapy-babble and quasi-confessional healing, instead of demanding the Truth and Justice Commission that might establish what we owe to the people he killed, as well as what we could and should do about the still unpunished and still untroubled people who directed him to slay them in their sleep.
The New York Times could benefit from having an in-house arbitrator.
A parody of Gone With the Wind has run into legal trouble: too revealing of the real nature of slavery?
The former FCC chairman says he's bitter about the effective dismantling of his low-power radio plan. Under his successor, such an idea won't even get raised.
Perhaps I underestimate the joy of being given a silly nickname by the Leader of the Free World, but I'm having a hard time understanding why media big feet are so taken by the nation's new Charmer in Chief. Leave aside the extreme right-wing agenda he's pursuing when by any fair measure of voting he lost the election. Forget that he began his term by breaking his key campaign promises. And ignore his frequent and unapologetic lies about his commitment to bipartisan governance. What about the fact that, perhaps more than any President since Nixon, Bush holds the media and its denizens in utter contempt?
Take for example Bush's decision to appoint Otto Reich to head the Latin American office in the State Department. As Peter Kornbluh discusses elsewhere in this issue [see "Bush's Contra Buddies," page 6], Reich's job in the Reagan Administration was simply to lie to (and about) the media. He did it very well. According to Walter Raymond--the CIA propaganda specialist whom William Casey transferred to the National Security Council in order to circumvent the 1947 National Security Act, which restricted CIA involvement in domestic propaganda operations--the purpose of Reich's Office of Public Diplomacy was to "concentrate on gluing black hats on the sandinistas and white hats on the UNO [contras]." Staffed by senior CIA officials with backgrounds in covert operations, military intelligence and psychological warfare, the OPD offered privileges to favored journalists, placed ghostwritten articles over the signatures of contra leaders in leading opinion magazines and on Op-Ed pages, and publicized nasty stories about the Sandinistas, true or not. In its first year, it sent attacks on the Sandinistas to 1,600 college libraries, 520 political science faculties, 122 editorial writers, 107 religious organizations and countless reporters, right-wing lobbyists and members of Congress. It booked advocates for 1,570 lecture and talk-show engagements. In just one week of March 1985, the OPD officers bragged in a memo of having fooled the editors of the Wall Street Journal into publishing an Op-Ed about Nicaragua penned by an unknown professor, having guided an NBC news story on the contras and having written and edited Op-Ed articles to be signed by contra spokesmen, as well as having planted false stories in the media about a visiting Congressman's experiences in Nicaragua.
Among the OPD's lies were stories that portrayed the Sandinistas as virulent anti-Semites, that reported a Soviet shipment of MIG jets to Managua and that purported to reveal that US reporters in Nicaragua were receiving sexual favors--hetero- and homosexual--from Sandinista agents in exchange for pro-Communist reporting. That last lie, published in the July 29, 1985, New York magazine, came directly from Reich.
Perhaps OPD's most important effort was to convince Congress and the media of the contras' democratic bona fides. They did this by pretending that the men handpicked by North as front men were operationally in charge of contra political and military operations. In addition to signing the names of these men to fake Op-Ed articles, Reich and company coached them on how to lie whenever they were asked about being on the US government payroll, as well as about their aims for their US-funded armies. Together with top officials of the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council, the OPD spent millions to paint civilians as the true leaders of the contras. The United Nicaraguan Opposition (UNO), founded in San José, Costa Rica, in June 1985, thanks in large part to the efforts of Oliver North, was designed to manufacture an acceptably "democratic" face for the contra leadership. According to a private 1985 memo by Robert Owen, North's liaison with the contras, the UNO was entirely "a creation of the USG[overnment] to garner support from Congress." Its leaders were "liars" and "greed and power motivated."
Reporting on Reich's appointment has been decidedly unsensational. The LA Times has ignored it. The New York Times and the Washington Post assigned to the story knowledgeable reporters who covered Central America, but the results reflected the strictures of journalistic objectivity as much as the outrageousness of Reich's activities. Raymond Bonner and Christopher Marquis wrote in the Times that "a government investigation concluded that Mr. Reich's office engaged in prohibited acts of domestic propaganda." (In a backhanded tribute to Bonner's brilliant Central American reporting of the 1980s, Reich called the Times editors with a vicious personal attack on the journalist hoping to get him taken off the story.) Karen DeYoung noted in the Post that the OPD "used what critics called legally questionable means to promote favorable publicity and political support for the U.S.-backed contras in Nicaragua in their war against the Cuba-backed Sandinista government." The Economist was even more generous, insisting that Reich "got marginally caught up in the Iran/contra scandal when his office was accused of engaging in covert propaganda activities to get Americans' support for the Nicaraguan contras." No major paper has yet addressed the issue in an editorial.
Most reports on the appointment have focused on it as payback to extremist Miami Cubans and brother Jeb for their instrumental role in helping Bush hijack Florida and hence the election. (Reich regularly likens Cuba to Auschwitz and to an antebellum slave plantation.) Perhaps it is. But Reich's appointment ought to be recognized as an intentional kick in the teeth to the media, as well as a testament to its lack of institutional memory.
When Kornbluh and Robert Parry first revealed the activities of the OPD in Foreign Policy magazine in 1988, Reich, according to a Boston Globe report, compared the fully accurate article to Hitler's "big lie" technique regarding the Final Solution. It's hard to imagine a more offensive manipulation of the murder of millions than using it to slander journalists and lie to the country about an illegal war--but hell, the Bush people are just getting started.
Attorney General John Ashcroft says he does not want Timothy McVeigh to "inject more poison into our culture"--a striking statement, given the method of McVeigh's execution. Accordingly, he intends to deny permission for television interviews during the Oklahoma City bomber's final weeks on federal death row. (The Oklahoma legislature had a similar purpose in mind when it passed a resolution condemning a new book about McVeigh--thus bringing it more publicity, as a dissenting legislator pointed out.) At the same time, Ashcroft has made a dramatic cultural intervention of his own, authorizing the closed-circuit telecast of McVeigh's execution to perhaps 200 family members of his victims.
Both of Ashcroft's announcements show clearly how capital punishment is coarsening American institutions. Although most of the press coverage did not mention it, the Attorney General's diktat banning broadcast interviews applies not only to McVeigh but to all federal death-row inmates. However repellent the thought of a McVeigh TV interview, the ban is one more step in a repressive, systematic national clampdown on press coverage of prisons, which in some states, like Virginia, has led to a virtual blackout of inmate interviews. In the future, Ashcroft's interview ban could deny broadcast access to a federal inmate far different from McVeigh, someone with a legitimate claim of innocence or discrimination--a real likelihood given the nearly 100 death-row inmates in state prisons exonerated by new evidence and the large percentage of capital convictions overturned for grave constitutional error in the original trial.
The question of a public telecast of McVeigh's lethal injection is now moot with Ashcroft's closed-circuit plan, though the drumbeat for public executions continues--with some support among notable death-penalty abolitionists and civil libertarians like Sister Helen Prejean and Nat Hentoff. Televising executions, their argument goes, would either sicken the public or at least make Americans more accountable for what goes on in their name. We disagree. We see telecasts of executions as a fundamentally different matter from death-row interviews. Today's executions by lethal injection are exercises in the engineering of death, the institutionalizing of death, the bureaucratizing of death. Far from shocking America, viewing lethal injections through the distancing glow of a TV screen will further normalize state killing--as television ultimately normalizes the forms of violence it depicts.
Ashcroft did not invent closed-circuit telecasts of an execution--it has been tried at the state level--but it raises disturbing questions. For one thing, as several technological experts have pointed out, the phone-line transmission may not be immune to hacking or decryption--raising the prospect of a McVeigh snuff film in the near or distant future. More important, it makes this first federal execution, one moving forward even as Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins the call for a death-penalty moratorium, a spectacle of individual vengeance for McVeigh's victims--a dangerous turn toward privatizing justice.
Far from shifting the spotlight to the survivors of Oklahoma City, Ashcroft's decision heightens the perverse amplification of McVeigh's voice initiated by his death sentence. The press spent the early weeks of spring speculating about how large a crowd would watch McVeigh take the needle. Instead of fading into anonymity, McVeigh has kept himself on the front page until his final moments and turned the chronicle of his last months into a testament for the militia fringe, who will make him a martyr. This is justice neither for McVeigh's victims nor for the country--and that is the real poison seeping into our culture from the federal death chamber in Terre Haute.
On the importance of being a "public nuisance."
Bill Clinton and George Will so rarely agree with each other that when they embrace the same position, we should be alarmed. This thought came to mind upon realizing that their stances on the Internet and China are interchangeable--despite Clinton's favoring a softer political line than Will on Beijing. When it comes to the web, both espouse what might best be dubbed a neo-McLuhanite approach, or a form of "McLuhanism with Capitalist Characteristics." The medium (the net) is the message (freedom), both insist, but ideally the market and the modem have to work their respective magics simultaneously. There is something appealing about this vision, but it is deeply flawed. And viewing the future through this particular rose-colored lens can lead observers to misunderstand crises in Chinese-American affairs (and in cross-cultural communications), such as those generated by the recent spy-plane fiasco and the 1999 destruction by NATO bombs of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
What exactly is the neo-McLuhanite camp, and why place Clinton and Will inside it? Consider, first, a speech the then-President gave in March 2000 calling for permanent normal trade relations with China. Clinton invoked Earl Warren's claim that "liberty is the most contagious force in the world," then insisted that the "cell phone and cable modem" would help freedom flourish in the new century. "We know how much the Internet has changed America," Clinton said, "and we are already an open society. Imagine how much it could change China." The Chinese government had "been trying to crack down on the Internet," he acknowledged, but this was like trying "to nail Jell-O to the wall."
Flash forward to a column Will wrote during the latest crisis, while the man the Chinese call Xiao Bushi (Little Bush) was proving (as a headline in the Guardian put it) that sorry really is the hardest word. Despite being troubled by Beijing's demand for an apology, the pundit saw hope on the horizon. Henry Kissinger had reported in glowing terms about the "proliferation of 'Internet cafes'" in China, and Will considered these "small businesses" to be "huge portents" of changes to come, since without a "monopoly of information," authoritarian governments collapse.
"Totalitarianism is rendered impossible, and perhaps even tyranny is rendered difficult," Will wrote, "by technologies that make nations porous to information." He then reminded his readers that "China already was becoming porous in 1989," when students there learned about massacres via e-mails sent to them from "American campuses where they had studied and made friends," and it has grown even more porous since. The official media might still try to "nationalize the public's consciousness," he concluded, but the web would undermine this.
Typically, neo-McLuhanite commentaries of this sort take three things for granted: first, that access to the Internet will not just make Chinese citizens more like us but also like us more. Second, that virtual globalization is tantamount to virtual Americanization, so the Internet can do for information what the Big Mac has done for cuisine. And last, that nationalism, at least in virulent forms, is a remnant ideology clung to only by older, less-plugged-in people out of step with the cosmopolitan dot-com generation.
So, what's wrong with this picture? Plenty--at least where Chinese-American conflicts are concerned. This struck me in 1999 (when I happened to be in China and witnessed anti-American protest spurred by the US bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade) and again this year.
The first mistaken neo-McLuhanite assumption is that when Chinese go onto the web to connect with foreign cultures, they naturally turn to American URLs. Sometimes they do, often they don't. In 1999, when I visited an Internet cafe in Beijing before the anti-American protests began, most of the youths I saw were hooked up to Japanese-style video games. After the demonstrations began, more patrons logged on to news sites, but as likely as not this would be www.serbia.com. Cultural globalization is never about one-way flows, though Americans often forget this, conveniently ignoring the fact that the world's cities are now cluttered not just with KFC franchises but also karaoke bars. American destinations provide some attractive options to netizens in search of adventure, but they are never the only places these globetrotters go.
A second problematic assumption is that visiting American websites will make Chinese doubt their government's propaganda. In the most emotional stages of recent crises, many US magazines, newspapers and on-line zines have showcased China-bashing Op-Eds and editorial cartoons that might well serve to confirm, not undermine, Beijing's rhetoric of victimization. They contain postings supporting the notion that for all our talk of the universality of human rights, we are not above being more outraged by the endangerment of US lives than by the loss of Chinese ones, and supporting the idea that Americans are far too prone to demonize and infantilize China. I actually hope, at certain moments, that my Chinese friends will stay away from the web. What good will it do them to see resurrections of Yellow Peril-type images of bloodthirsty dragons? Or to read the headline at least one paper used for George Will's recent column: "America Shouldn't Appease Its Adolescent Foe"?
Yet another problem with the neo-McLuhanite approach is that there is in fact never a clear line separating nationalists from netizens. There are plenty of plugged-in populists with jingoistic impulses in China (as anyone who has visited its chatrooms can attest). And the same goes for the United States (just visit www.RushLimbaugh.com). Nor does generation make the difference. Some of the nastiest anti-American cyberpostings on Chinese bulletin boards in 1999 came from educated youths. And Wang Wei, the young pilot downed in the brush with the US spy plane, has been described recently in the Chinese media as having traits we associate both with the global netizen (a regular surfer of the web and user of e-mail) and the fervent nationalist (ready to die for his homeland).
Last but not least, neo-McLuhanite rhapsodists often overlook the extent to which old and new media forms overlap and affect each other. Old forms of communication never die, they just get digital makeovers, and new media can easily be integrated into traditional political games. Witness the key role of an exchange of snail-mail letters between Wang Wei's wife and Xiao Bushi in the most recent Chinese-American crisis, the importance of which was magnified by both Chinese TV and CNN coverage. Or consider the use in the 1999 Chinese protests of a new form of wall poster: printouts from websites.
The neo-McLuhanites are certainly right about two things: China is changing dramatically, in part because of new forms of international communication and commerce, and the transformations will continue. But these changes have not and will not take simple and predictable forms. Markets and modems, in the era of the New World Disorder, push and pull people and countries in different directions, and the choices individuals and groups make when faced with novel challenges matter.
It seems fitting to end with an ironic question. Wasn't it Marxist analysts who used to be criticized--albeit sometimes unfairly--for insisting that History flows in a predetermined direction? I, for one, doubt that the new forms of virtual determinism will prove any better at predicting the future in this century than the materialist one spelled out by the author of Das Kapital did in the last one.
Remember the term "useful idiots"? Those were the well-meaning leftists who during the cold war couldn't distinguish between the beautiful dream of communism and the murderous reality of Soviet Stalinism. They blinded themselves to tyranny and weakened the democratic left by inviting redbaiting demagogues like Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn to tar anticommunist socialists and liberals with the same Stalinite brush.
In the case of 28-year-old James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of Star TV and the scion and possible heir to Rupert's massive media empire, the term "idiot" may be overly generous. Speaking to a Milken Institute gathering in Los Angeles shortly before the Chinese captured a US spy plane and held its crew, the onetime college dropout sang the praises of the Communist oppressors in Beijing in terms that might have made Mao blush. He attacked the global media for its coverage of Chinese human rights abuses, insisting that "destabilizing forces today are very, very dangerous for the Chinese government." He instructed Hong Kong's brave champions of democracy to accept the fact of an "absolutist" government. And he all but endorsed the persecution of what he called the "dangerous" and "apocalyptic" Falun Gong religious movement, which "clearly does not have the success of China at heart." (Some 150 adherents of the group have died in police custody and another 10,000 are currently in prison.)
The reason "idiot" is overly kind is that young Murdoch need only read his own publications to learn the truth about his beloved tyrants. According to the editors of the Murdoch-owned Weekly Standard, "China is the largest and most powerful despotism in the world" and a military threat to the United States, while "Communists, who cannot justify their dictatorial rule except by appeal to 'stability,' must inevitably behave this way: constantly inventing new 'instabilities'--and crushing them."
When I called various journalistic members of the conservative Murdoch fraternity--few of whom are ever at a loss for words--none were available to respond to the comments of young James. Over at Fox News, network president Roger Ailes and talk-show hosts Tony Snow and loudmouth Bill O'Reilly were unavailable. Mum was the word for New York Post editor in chief Ken Chandler as well as for Bob McManus, who edits the paper's editorial page, usually eager to scream at the top of its (metaphorical) lungs at the slightest provocation. Over at the Weekly Standard, editor and publisher William Kristol, executive editor Fred Barnes and senior writer Christopher Caldwell were apparently too busy to return my calls. Opinion editor David Tell was kind enough to point me to the article containing the above quotes but would say nothing about the magazine's proprietors. Senior editor and bestselling swami David Brooks was all charm and no information: "I'm sorry. I'm having some computer problems. At first I thought you were asking me to comment on the son of my employer. Must be some garble."
The issue is not exactly a new one for News Corp. employees. Rupert Murdoch has been the nation's most notorious Communist fellow-traveler for years. In hopes of protecting his considerable investments in China, he has proved willing to kick the BBC off his satellite network, cancel unfavorable books and pay millions to publish unreadable propaganda to curry favor with China's Communist gerontocracy.
Nevertheless, David Tell is correct when he points out that the Standard's editorial independence on the issue speaks for itself--and speaks pretty well. As Michael Kinsley has explained, it's just plain stupid to wait around for Slate "to give Microsoft the skeptical scrutiny it requires as a powerful institution in American society," and so it would be wishful thinking to hope that Standard editors would apply the same nasty epithets they like to trot out for honest liberals to the lying commie-boot-lickers who sign their checks. (Though now might be a good time for the magazine to apologize for the reprehensible slander it published, under Robert Novak's byline, attacking posthumously the good name of I.F. Stone, who denounced Soviet atrocities at considerable personal cost before most of its editors were born and, on his deathbed, defended the democratic dissidents in Tiananmen Square.)
Writing on his vanity website, Andrew Sullivan tsk-tsks the Standard's refusal to condemn the Murdochs, insisting, "A good test of any magazine's editorial integrity is its ability to criticize its proprietor." By that standard, The Nation should be Sullivan's favorite magazine, but I'll buy him dinner at Le Cirque if he can unearth a New Republic editorial attacking owner Marty Peretz's comically obsessive Jewish xenophobia and anti-Arab racism. And of course one doesn't read much about the dangers of cults that prey on confused young teenagers in the pages of Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times. Even Inside.com, which specializes in Talmudic real-time coverage of exactly the kind of deal its parent company, Powerful Media, recently made with Steven Brill, preferred to see its competitors break the news before publishing David Carr's terrifically Talmudic coverage of it.
When it comes to their owners, most publications find silence to be golden. The problem is not so much with the somewhat defensible hypocrisy of the Weekly Standard editors but with the larger picture it paints of the conservative movement. Whatdoes it mean for the right that its most generous patron openly sides not only with Communist totalitarians but also with the regime that these same conservatives have identified as the number-one security threat to the United States? The Wall Street Journal editorial page has acquitted itself honorably in this regard, publishing a blistering attack on the Murdochs by its deputy editorial features editor, Tunku Varadarajan. But where are the Buckleys and Bennetts of yesteryear? Has the fact that Murdoch shells out salaries for virtually the entire Podhoretz family managed to shut them up as apparently no other force in the universe can? Are the rabbis of redbaiting now stamping Communism kosher for Passover? Why is it so hard to find a good right-wing anti-Communist when you finally need one?
To put it all in a nutshell, come
the month of May Edward Said won't be traveling to Vienna; Susan
Sontag will be traveling to Jerusalem.
It's a backhanded
tribute to his effectiveness as a spokesman for the Palestinian cause
that the attacks on the Palestinian Said have, across the past couple
of years, reached new levels of envenomed absurdity.
latest uproar over Said concerns a trip to Lebanon he made last
summer, in the course of which he and his family took the opportunity
to travel to the recently evacuated "security zone" formerly occupied
by Israeli forces. First they visited the terrible Khiam prison and
torture center, then a deserted border post, abandoned by Israeli
troops and now crowded with festive Lebanese exuberantly throwing
stones at the heavily fortified border.
In competitive
emulation of his son, Said pitched a stone and was photographed in
the act. You can scarcely blame the man for being stunned at the
consequences. Throw a rock at a border fence, and if you are a
Palestinian called Edward Said you'll be the object of sharply
hostile articles about the infamous stone toss in the New York
Times, face a campaign to be fired from your tenured job at
Columbia University and--this is the latest at time of writing--be
disinvited by the Freud Society and Museum in Vienna from a
longstanding engagement to deliver the annual Freud lecture there in
May. (To its credit, Columbia stands by him and says the calls for
his removal are preposterous and offensive.)
What, aside
from being an articulate Palestinian, is Said's crime? As he himself
has written, while "I have always advocated resistance to Zionist
occupation, I have never argued for anything but peaceful coexistence
between us and the Jews of Israel once Israel's military repression
and dispossession of Palestinians has stopped." Perhaps that's the
problem. Said makes a reasoned and persuasive case for justice for
Palestinians. He doesn't say that the Jews should be driven into the
sea. These, not the fanatics, are the dangerous folks.
us now contemplate the role of Susan Sontag, another public
intellectual of large reputation. You can pretty much gauge a
writer's political sedateness and respectability in America by the
kind of awards they reap, and it is not unfair to say that the
literary and indeed grant-distributing establishment deems Sontag
safe. Aside from the 2000 National Book Award for her latest novel,
In America, she received in 1990 the liberal imprimatur of a
five-year (and richly endowed) "genius" fellowship from the MacArthur
Foundation, which once contemplated giving just such a fellowship to
Said but retreated after furious protests from one influential Jewish
board member, Saul Bellow.
Now Sontag has been named the
Jerusalem Prize laureate for 2001, twentieth recipient of the
biennial award since its inauguration in 1963. The award, worth
$5,000, along with a scroll issued by the mayor of Jerusalem, is
proclaimedly given to writers whose works reflect the freedom of the
individual in society.
Sontag was selected by a
three-member panel of judges, comprising the Labor Party's Shimon
Peres (now Ariel Sharon's foreign minister) and two Hebrew University
professors, Lena Shiloni and Shimon Sandbank. Peres approvingly cited
Sontag's description of herself: "First she's Jewish, then she's a
writer, then she's American. She lives Israel with emotion and the
world with obligation." When notified of her latest accolade,
Sontag's response was, "I trust you have some idea of how honored and
moved, deeply moved, I am to have been awarded this year's Jerusalem
Prize." Sontag is now scheduled to go to Jerusalem for the May 9
awards ceremony.
Why dwell on the mostly tarnished currency
of international literary backslapping? I do so to make a couple of
points concerning double standards. American intellectuals can be
nobly strident in protesting the travails of East Timorese, Rwandans,
Central American peasants, Chechens and other beleaguered groups. But
for almost all of them the Palestinians and their troubles have
always been invisible.
It can scarcely be said that Sontag
is a notably political writer. But there was an issue of the 1990s on
which she did raise her voice. Along with her son, David Rieff,
Sontag became a passionate advocate of NATO intervention against
Yugoslavia, or, if you prefer, Serbia. On May 2, 1999, Sontag wrote
an essay in the New York Times Magazine, "Why Are We in
Kosovo?" urgently justifying NATO's intervention. "What if the French
Government began slaughtering large numbers of Corsicans and driving
the rest out of Corsica...or the Italian Government began emptying
out Sicily or Sardinia, creating a million
Sontag cannot be entirely unaware of a
country at the eastern end of the Mediterranean from which at least
750,000 residents have been expelled. She has always been
appreciative of irony. Does she see no irony in the fact that she,
assiduous critic of Slobodan Milosevic, is now planning to travel to
get a prize in Israel, currently led by a man, Ariel Sharon, whose
credentials as a war criminal are robust? Does Sontag see no irony in
getting a prize premised on the recipient's sensitivity to issues of
human freedom, in a society where the freedom of Palestinians is
unrelentingly suppressed? Imagine what bitter words she would have
been ready to hurl at a writer voyaging to the Serb portion of
Sarajevo to receive money and a fulsome scroll from Radovan Karadzic
or Milosevic, praising her commitment to freedom of the
Yet here she is, packing her bags to travel to
a city over which Sharon declares Israel's absolute and eternal
control--in violation of international law--and whose latest turmoils
he personally provoked by insisting on traveling under the protection
of a thousand soldiers to provoke Palestinians in their holy
When the South African writer Nadine Gordimer was
offered the Jerusalem Prize a number of years ago, she declined,
saying she did not care to travel from one apartheid society to
another. But to take that kind of position in the United States would
be a risky course for a prudent intellectual. Said knows he lives in
a glass house, yet he had the admirable effrontery to throw his


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#23586 Feb 2, 2013
"I find Topix is mostly a waste of time."
In your case, a COMPLETE waste of time.
#23587 Feb 2, 2013
[QUOTE who="marred & tinny joke"]Liberal's SIN[/QUOTE]
Liberal sins are more earned science, engineering & mathematics degrees than re-pubic-lick-uns, so practical wealth-building occurs.
Liberal sins are more voters getting in the way of re-pubic-lick-uns who give more money to rich people. Re-pubic-lick-uns have fewer people, so must politically gain power through back-door politics.
Good thing 'marred & tinny joke' ain't god, because he ain't good or just, but does believe that others need to sacrifice so that the royal kings & queens of money........ will have more money.
Since: Jan 13
#23588 Feb 2, 2013
Actually a scorched earth IS part of the legacy you right wingers are leaving our children from ignoring global warming.
Other than droughts and failed agriculture harvests? Flooded coastlines from the melted ice caps and oceans in crisis from reduced fish harvests and coral reefs. See the added CO2 is also making the oceans warmer and more acidic.
It will take more than your money to fix the mess you are leaving them.
#23589 Feb 2, 2013
Brain Gone has no money, just a moronic mouth and a simpleton attitude....
#23590 Feb 3, 2013
In addition, you think topix does not know what you publish. Attacks on me will not delete or erase what you are and what you do. You should stop making an ASSumption of your---self before you know the facts. Do contact topix to satisfy your accusations of the reprint BS your posting of what I said. You are a dumbASSumption of your---self again.
#23591 Feb 3, 2013
YYes ?? Poor P-ppppenny...
Of course, I'm "postiong" dead, just like your Global Warming credibility.
If you REALLY want a laugh, imagine Penny putting all those "judging marks" up after we copy/paste posts....
Hi, Mistake a minute P-P-Penny,
How are Sheldon and Leonard...
Ps- Almost a moron, stick with it.
People say that you are the perfect idiot. I say that you are not perfect, but you are doing alright.
Ordinarily people live and learn. You just live
"I Luv Carbon Dioxide"
Since: Dec 08
Home, sweet home.
#23592 Feb 3, 2013
I've never recommended ignoring global warming, I just oppose climate change mitigation. If you want to adapt to climate, I think that's a wonderful idea; go for it. I'm for climate freedom, get government out of climate.
I'm not leaving scorched Earth by advocating using fossil fuels, all fuels, encouraging the distribution and use of energy and fuel should help our economy. At least our kids can have jobs!
I oppose restricting CO2 emissions; that's idiocy and greed. Higher taxes and more government control; I won't buy it!
There have never been droughts and crop failures before the age of the automobile? That's not the history I've read.
You should learn more; people have always tried to scare others with news about droughts and crop failures; they used to burn witches to mitigate climate change. Get government out of climate change mitigation!
Ever visit Amsterdam or Venice? Flooded coastlines are picturesque; that's why people like to live near them. We shouldn't subsidize their bad decisions by subsidizing insurance or disaster aid beyond immediate relief and relocation.
That happens everywhere we overuse resources, the market might adjust to aquaculture and other sources of food. Government isn't the solution; they are the problem.
Coral reefs need CO2 to live, just like we need plants to use CO2. Don't be selfish; CO2 adds to the biosphere, in increases the range of life.
When the oceans warm, they release CO2 the same way a cold can of soda will release more CO2 as it warms. Don't confuse cause and effect.
No amount of cash can fix the climate. If you don't like your climate, move. Governments can't fix climate, but you can deal with it.
#23593 Feb 3, 2013
"brian_g stumble butt dumpster diver" allegedly threatened AGW advocates so they would no longer post on toxic topix AGW forum threads.
Saint Paul, MN
#23594 Feb 3, 2013
A leaked report by a United Nations' group dedicated to climate studies says that heat from the sun may play a larger role than previously thought."[Results] do suggest the possibility of a much larger impact of solar variations on the stratosphere than previously thought, and some studies have suggested that this may lead to significant regional impacts on climate," reads a draft copy of a major, upcoming report from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
#23595 Feb 3, 2013
You just told a lie.
Deniers lie and cheat.
#23596 Feb 3, 2013
You own post weakens the credibility.
#23597 Feb 3, 2013
Haha it happened again, AmS, cross posted.
Since: Jan 13
#23598 Feb 3, 2013
it said regional impact only. Did you notice that.
And solar variations have been relatively stable over the last 30 years, declining a little recently.
Yet temperatures have been climbing. So they still wouldn't be saying CO2 isn't the primary culprit.
Isn't that clear to you?
#23599 Feb 3, 2013
Whatever you said was not to me. Right?
#23600 Feb 3, 2013
This is a much better response than mine.
Since: Jan 13
#23601 Feb 3, 2013
Are you aware govt research & development was used for the transcontinental train building. That the Dept of Defense financed R&D for helicopters and airplanes, NASA financed R&D for satellities and the telecommunications industry, and on and on. NASA also paid for windtunnel testing and air traffic control systems used today by the airlines.
Typically what happens is commercial companies then take over the production after the R&D has been paid for the government. The same parallel is what needs to happen with alternative fuels.
The plan of the Democrats was to retool buildings to use alternataive energy which would create new jobs. Republicans were determined to give Democrats no successes.
Are you aware the problem of mercury in ocean fish has been traced to coal plant emissions? More CO2 will lead to more droughts and when the ice cap melts, there will be flooding of the coastal cities? This will be extremely expensive -- far more than controlling CO2 emissions. Food prices will go up and insurance prices will go up, a lot.
No the number of hot days have increased, and the number of cold days have decreased. NASA has a graph that shows there have been something like double the warmer days, and half the normal cooler days. Droughts are the worst on record for most of the world, and expected to increase.
See, warmer temperatures evaporate the moisture in the ground. This has to be replaced with either rain or irrigation. We have a water problem out West too you know.
I agree with you some on mainstream news -- they need to attract audiences. I read science sources. The latter does not talk about polar bears or hurricanes very much for example.
No, because agricultural scientists are testing for drought resistant crops, and they say so far they have found some success, but eventually they still need to have some water.... ie there is still a big problem
con't next post.
Since: Jan 13
#23602 Feb 3, 2013
The oceans have absorbed about 80% of the increase in CO2, from the articles I have read. Scientists do worry the oceans will saturate and let CO2 off the way you describe. That puts it back in the atmosphere and warms up the Earth.
Well the top scientists are telling us we need not to put the trash up in the atmosphere to begin with. What is your solution???
Since: Apr 08
"the green troll"
#23603 Feb 3, 2013
Trying that old lie again, huh?
Maybe an experiment would tell us if it's really happening?
#23604 Feb 3, 2013
'brian_g stumble butt dumpster diver' wants to push man-made atmospheric CO2 to such levels that total CO2 will be past 1000 ppm. Of course, an increasing percentage of building interiors would have concentrated CO2 levels in the 4000-6000 ppm, a level where detrimental CO2 poisoning would occur in some people.
But the oil-can job of 'brian_g stumble butt dumpster diver' would be secure. Of course,'brian_g stumble butt dumpster diver' wouldn't go visit people the hospital, poisoned by CO2, because he would be securing a good future for his children.
#23605 Feb 4, 2013
And you think topix doesnt know what you publish? Attacks on me won't delete or erase what you are and what you do. You should stop making an ASSumption of your---self before you know the facts. Do contact topix to satisfy your accusations of the reprint BS your posting of what I said. You are a dumbASSumption of your---self again.
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After picking up my sons Note 10.1 and noticing that it would apparently come on but had nothing on the screen I began googling. Not much info out there. Appears to be a common problem. His tablet seemed to be working fine but nothing displayed on the screen. Read several threads on here with most ending in sending the units back under warranty. Although I did purchase 3 year warranties on both units I bought...I'm just not one to do the right thing. I powered the unit down and began taking the back off like the poster did in this thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2617614. Once I got the back off I tried disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it. No dice. The poster then said he disconnected the two ribbons and reconnected them and that worked for him...still no worky for me. One of the ribbons is labeled "LCD". I followed it to the other end. It is covered by a silver "hold down" sticker. I unstuck the sticker and could then clearly see that the ribbon was clearly cocked very slightly in it's socket. If you don't know, these ribbon sockets come open by prying the black piece up and away from the ribbon. Be very careful doing this. I did this on this end of the LCD ribbon, straightened the ribbon and clipped the socket back closed. BAM. Black Screen Gone! Works like a charm.
If you are comfortable digging around in very small electronics give it a try. If not, send it in.
Hope this helps.
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Game mechanics • Newbie guide • In development • DDO Store • IRC Chat
Challenges • Classes • Collectables • Crafting • Enhancements • Epic Destinies • Favor
Feats • Glossary • Items • Maps • Monsters • Places • Quests • Races • Skills • Spells
Please create an account or log in to build a reputation and unlock more editing privileges, and then visit DDO wiki's IRC Chat if you need any help!
Newbie guide
[edit] Welcome to the game!
Now that you've built your character, logged in, you'll want to know 'everything?!' - no problem, you've found a good starting point on this page and the first thing you may want to do is find out how everything you've performed during character creation appears in DDO on your character - head over to the Character sheet page to find a central point of information about all your characters attributes.
The Character sheet will always be your primary source of all information about all of your characters abilities, attributes, statistics and detailed build information, its your go to place as you progress through acquiring everything in DDO from Ability tomes through to how your saves are calculated. All players visit it constantly, study it and seek to always improve everything they can on it. This guide looks to support you on exactly where to find all detailed information in one central place to help improve your game-play and lessen the time spent researching.
Here are some more helpful links to essential information too:
- Need help to start your character? In addition to the class and race newbie guide and the specific page for each class and race, there are starting guides for each class. Make sure to check them out!
- Create a proper build for your class: Builds for new players.
- If you know about the Pen-and-Paper version of D&D, you may want to check this list of differences between DDO and PnP.
- Looking for general information about D&D Edition 3 or 3.5 and the d20 system? Although it does not always apply to DDO, the d20 System Reference Document can be very helpful.
- Looking for a list of tips displayed on the game's loading screen? Check out loading screen tips.
- No clue what you are supposed to do next in the starter area? Take a look at The Salvation of Korthos flagging guide and quest section of the wiki.
- No clue what collectables are worth keeping? Take a look at our collectable list with associated rewards.
- Even in Korthos, it helps to find and join a party. To find and join the right party effortlessly, use the Social panel.
- No idea what they are saying in party chat or on the social panel? Try the Glossary for Acronyms and Slang Terminology.
[edit] Official Resources
[edit] DDO official game guide
- Although this may not be 100% up-to-date, a PDF format game manual is available.
[edit] DDO official forums
Make sure to visit the official newbie forum. There are plenty of helpful players and lots of advice on hand - be sure to check the stickied threads at the top of the forum!
[edit] DDO Compendium
As of May 2013 the DDO Compendium was discontinued. Its official guides were migrated to the Game Guides. (DDO Forums)
Here is some more information about the DDO Compendium.
[edit] DDOwiki newbie guides category
Here are some other less crunchy articles created or archived by DDOwiki contributors.
- Newbie guide
- Starting a class guides
- Fighting in groups
- Help! Am I Raid Ready
- How to Hit Things
- I would like to create a Mage. Should I pick a Wizard or a Sorcerer?
- New Player FAQs
- Newbie guide/Classes and races
- Revised Paths
- Stormreach Chronicle - The Academy: Armor Class
- Stormreach Chronicle - The Academy: Damage Reduction
- What should I bring to a raid?
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- How I Build My Toons
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- How Do I Pick A Race
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- What Ability Scores Do I Set
- Which Class Do I Choose
- Which Feats Do I Take
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- Syndeo's Guide to Being a Respected Rogue
- Syndeo's Guide to Being a Revered Ranger
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Planning a graduation dinner, Mother's Day brunch, or another festive meal with your folks? These New York standbys are sure to impress
Minetta Tavern
You may have to book the early-bird sitting at Keith McNally's smoking-hot reinvention of this early-20th-century literati hangout, but your parents probably won't mind. The price of the prime-beef Black Label Burger ($26) may make them wince, but as tender and fatty as foie gras, it's worth every penny. Still skeptical? Order the Minetta Burger for a mere $17.Read more
Terroir Tribeca
Need a spot that can stand up to the scrutiny of lifelong wine snobs? The focus is squarely on the drinks at the Tribeca outpost of this hip wine-bar micro-chain. Co-owner and oeno-evangelist Paul Grieco preaches the powers of terroir—grapes that express a sense of place—and the superknowledgeable waitstaff aptly helps patrons navigate the many by-the-glass options. Pair the stellar sips with restaurant-caliber small plates. Hallelujah!Read more
A Voce Columbus
Want views of the park without paying Per Se prices? A Voce's sleek uptown outpost has a solid menu and service even the most demanding patriarch/matriarch won't complain about. Brick-flattened chicken, marinated in fennel and chili and served with Tuscan greens and enormous white beans, is a comfort-food triumph. The folks will marvel at your sophistication when you name-check the massive Frank Stella mixed-media piece Juam that currently hangs near the host stand, from owner Marlon Abela's collection.Read more
If your parents' idea of fine dining is white tablecloths, hushed tones and belle epoque decor, Daniel will prove that it's possible to embrace the 21st century without losing any of the big-night-out experience. After a vibrant redesign by Adam Tihany in 2008, the surroundings are now as fresh as the seasonally changing menu, which might include such starters as wasabi-kissed hamachi tartare paired with hamachi sashimi marinated in a subtle tandoori rub. Entrees are unusually generous, such as one night's market special: pan-seared Wagyu sirloin with wild mushrooms and a luscious hazelnut-potato croquette.Read more
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Whether they're from Peoria or Portland, you'll want to take them to a quintessential New York deli, and this Lower East Side survivor is the real deal. They might get a kick out of the famous faces plastered to the paneled walls, or the spot where Meg Ryan faked it, but the real stars of this cavernous cafeteria are the thick-cut pastrami sandwiches and the crisp-skinned all-beef hotdogs.Read more
Pegu Club
Audrey Saunders's imperial Pegu Club is still the gold standard for some of the city's finest cocktails. The design of Pegu's parent-friendly space—subdued, and quieter than your average baroom—was inspired by a British officer's club in Rangun. Steer your folks toward the eponymous house drink, a sweet-and-sour blend of gin, bitters, fresh lime juice and orange curaçao, or the Earl Grey MarTEAni, a tipsy take on afternoon tea, with Earl Grey–infused gin and lemon juice frothed with egg white.Read more
Union Square Cafe
Danny Meyer has countless beloved eateries under his belt, but his groundbreaking '80s bistro is still a hit more than two decades since its opening. Longstanding signature dishes still on the menu as rotating weekly specials, such as grilled lamb chops scotta dita with potato-gruyère gratin, may inspire nostalgia and you'll all enjoy sampling classics-in-the-making by chef Carmen Quagliata.Read more
Peter Luger
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New York Red Bulls striker Juan Pablo Angel feels he has never been in such a situation in his entire career.
The Colombian striker is currently struggling with a niggling injury but was forced to play in the Red Bulls 2-1 loss to FC Dallas (in which he scored) and says the situation at the club is a difficult one.
"If we weren't in the situation that we're in right now, I wouldn't have played today," Angel told Goal.com.
"I've never been in this situation in my entire career, especially at this level. We only have 13 field players in the squad and I find that shocking. But I guess that's the way it is. There's obviously something we're doing wrong here — to be at this level and not have sufficient players to fill the bench."


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Re: Man, it is sooo hot.
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What kind of case do you have? If it's a popular one, then Performance PCs may have a spare side panel with some fan ducts cut in.
I don't think a backplate will help GPU temps any. Those are to cool the memory chips and don't contact the GPU at all.
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Yeah... I have the TJ07 but I have the smoke black glass look.
Also I'm a little pissed off with PPC's at the moment.....don't really want to deal with them again.
Heh, that's the last thing you want to get from them. Trust me on that. They use double sided tape to hold the window in place and expect it to stick.
@Lee: After the hassle with my case I won't even link to them even if they are the only ones that have the item.
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It's not the idle temps that would concern me if I were an air-cooled user. It's the fact that reviewers are testing the card open case, and it's routinely running within 10-12c of the max temperature threshold.
That's not good long-term for the card. I see a lot of RMAs in the future from guys who toss these in a case without really thinking about airflow.
But to be honest, if I didn't have my 5970s then I'd be tempted to pick up two 480s and watercool them. I like their performance; I just don't like what power hogs they are.
There's a positive about 480 that hasn't really been talked about much, though, and it's that 1.5GB frame buffer. That will come in useful in the near future and already does for those who mod textures in their games.
That actually brings up another good point. Let's say you have a pair of them in SLI and they do make it to the threshold. I wonder if they will start throttling themselves to keep the heat down. If they do then you're not gaining any performance.
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- Timothy S. Moerland, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, in Ohio, has been appointed as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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Every year, some preseason publication declares that it's the year
Kirk Ferentz's team will finally win an outright Big Ten title and
become the type of superpower that causes other teams to tremble.
Ohio State gets the blood boiling. The Michigan game always gets
circled on the calendar. Penn State, even during the down days, was
a big date that got everyone fired up. Iowa, even after four
straight January bowl appearances, just barely gets the blood
pressure up.
And why is that?
Maybe it's because the team is always out of the national
title hunt before the the leaves change colors.
2005 Record:
2005 predicted wins
It hasn't been just that Iowa always loses
at least one early game to tumble out of the title race, it's that
national fans can cross off the Hawkeyes after crushing losses like the
23-3 gaffe to Iowa State last year and the 44-7 blasting by Arizona
State in 2004. Worse yet, Iowa has lost it's last three Big Ten openers.
On the plus side, Ferentz and his staff has the team humming as the
season goes on.
While it's always important to get off to a hot start, it's more
important to be good in November, and that's where Iowa has succeeded
going 9-2 over the last four ears in the most crucial of months. This
year's team has just enough holes to fill that it might continue to
follow the pattern and have a few problems early on before rocking and
rolling late.
The offense will have few problems moving the ball with Drew Tate back
to lead the attack for a third straight season and tailback Albert Young
a burgeoning superstar running behind a talented, veteran line. The
hole? The receiving corps. It's very fast and should be great by the end
of the year, but it'll need time to develop.
The defense has the same issues. The defensive line that was a concern
last season will be one of the Big Ten's best this year, but the
linebacking corps won't be nearly as good and will need a few games to
get rolling. The safeties are excellent, but the corners are green. All
the problems on both sides of the ball aren't that big a deal and will
all be fine; it's just going to take a few games. By that time, Iowa
could be out of the hunt yet again.
So Iowa isn't going to win the national title. Would another January
bowl game be so bad? With this schedule, it might be because ...
The Schedule: It's
almost all that any Big Ten team could reasonably ask for. It's
light enough for Iowa to get that time to jell playing Montana, at
Syracuse, Iowa State, and at Illinois before dealing with Ohio State
in Iowa City. The Hawkeyes catch a huge break not having to play
Penn State, and not facing Michigan State this season isn't a bad
thing. If you believe that the battle for the Floyd of Rosedale
trophy at Minnesota will be like an Iowa home game, then the only
road game on the slate to worry about is at Michigan. Win that, and
get by the Buckeyes at home, and an unbeaten season is very likely.
Offensive Player: Senior QB Drew Tate.
One of the Big Ten's toughest quarterbacks, Tate is also starting to
grow into one of the smartest with improved accuracy and
decision-making abilities. He might not always be the prettiest
quarterback, but he always seems to find a way to get the job done.
Defensive Player: Junior DE Ken Iwebema. He turned into a flash of
a pass rusher last year and should be even more dangerous this
season with the rest of the front four good enough to take the heat
off. Fine, so offenses will gameplan to stop Iwebema. That means
Bryan Mattison will make plays at the other end, or quick tackles
Matt Kroul and Mitch King will fly up the middle.
player to a successful season: Senior WR Calvin Davis. Herb
Grigsby should be a reliable target on one side, and Scott Chandler
will lead a strong group of tight ends, but it's Davis who has to
shine at split end and become the consistent deep threat who opens
things up for the rest of the offense.
season will be a success if ... Iowa wins 11 games and comes up
with at least a share of the Big Ten title. The Hawkeyes will be
favored in every conference game but two (at Michigan and home
against Ohio State). If this really is a Big Ten
championship-caliber team, it splits the the two nasty games and
beats everyone else.
game: Sept. 30 vs. Ohio State. It'll take an upset for Iowa to
lose at home to Purdue, Northwestern or Wisconsin and on the road
against Illinois, Indiana and Minnesota. A win in Kinnick Stadium
over the Buckeyes would likely mean it's a one game season (October
21st at Michigan) for the title.
Fun Stats:
- First quarter scoring: Iowa 119 - Opponents 37
- Field goals in eight Big Ten games: Iowa 14 of 17 - Opponents 4 of
- Time of possession: Opponents 32:27 - Iowa 27:33
The Last Time Iowa…
…played in a bowl game…2005 (Outback Bowl vs. Florida)
…missed a bowl game…2000
…pitched a shutout…2005 (Ball State)
…was shutout…2000 (Illinois)
…scored 50 points…2005 (Minnesota)
…went undefeated…1922
…won a conference title…2004 (share, Big Ten)
…had a 3,000-yard passer…1988 (Chuck Hartlieb)
…had a 1,000-yard rusher…2005 (Albert Young)
…had a 1,000-yard receiver…2000 (Kevin Kasper)
…had a first-round draft choice…2006 (LB Chad Greenway)


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The point is to never go back...
Not often, my wings usually get tired before I get to that point.
It feels that way at times. I took part in a finger exercise last week. We were to trace our way through a maze with our finger. I kept getting halfway there and then, finding myself going away from the centre of the maze, I mistakenly thought I had taken a wrong path. I finally gave up and said I would do it with a marker when I returned home. To my surprise, I found that is what you had to do in order to arrive at the centre.

It reminds me of our spiritual growth - how when we are exploring our shadow side it feels like we are going away from our goal rather than towards it. Instead, we find to our amazement it's the only way home.
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... Other than a mortgage ... except for a mortgage ...
But isn't the rest generally a drop in the financial bucket? I find this contrast interesting: 1. half of household couples up to the age of forty are underwater, 2. by law a creditor can close a joint account at the request of either spouse. It should noted that the card must be paid off before it can be closed, but how much can the spouse charge when you check the balance responsibly often?
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I don't, myself. But, if you do, which ones do you visit, and how often do you frequent such places?
I don't, myself. But, if you do, which ones do you visit, and how often do you frequent such places?
Cedar Point, and I usually get a season pass so I visit about 20+ times per season. It's my second love next to Disneyland.
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In a typical year we will visit a great number of "Other" theme parks.
I think the most amount of non-disney parks we visited in a year was 2 years ago.
In addition to Disneyland/DCA we visited:
Sea World San Diego, Legoland, Knott's, Magic Mountain, Universal Studios Hollywood, Bonfante Gardens, Santa Cruz Boardwalk, Great America, Six Flags Marine World, Six Flags Over Georgia, HersheyPark, Knoebels, Dorney Park, Six Flags Great Adventure.
Last year was kind of a slow year for us "Non-Disney" as the only other parks we visited outside of Disney were Magic Mountain, Knott's and Universal Orlando.
Now this year, since we have fallen in love with WDW, and are making 3 trips out there we won't really be doing any non-Disney parks, but there is always the possibility of Universal or something I guess. Next year we may go back to hitting more non-Disney stuff though.
We aren't even getting Magic Mountain passes this year. This is a first for me since about 1988.
We have gone to Magic Mountain and Universal Studios in the past year, surprisingly I haven't even been to Knotts in years. Sea World is in the plans at some point as well. We don't visit the others regularly, since we don't live all that close to them and we love Disneyland. But it's always fun to go out to other parks.
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The only non-Disney amusement park I visit is DCA. And the county fair back home, which has many of the same rides.
But seriously, I like DCA.
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I like Knott's and those little family fun centers where they have miniature golf and go-karts.
Since I currently reside in Georgia I make several trips a year to Six Flags Over Georgia.
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Hersheypark is my favorite annual trip that I look forward to throughout the year. I only wish I could visit Disneyland and DCA more often like some of you guys, but it's 3000 miles away from here. Hersheypark is a great driving vacation for me.
I visit amusement parks all over the world wherever I find them. Way too many to list here.
My favorite is each year at the beginning of "the season" when a group of former and current Imagineers and others (such as me!) all visit Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio for about 3 nights. We've been doing this every year for decades. We just have a total blast. No pressure. No talking shop (that comes later when we're back home). Just acting like your typical giddy tourists riding the rides and enjoying the history and fun of the place. I'm getting to the age and condition that I can't ride all the newer mega G force ones that I'd like to (and I'm not the only one!)...but it's still great fun! Something I look forward to very much every year.
I've been to Universal Studios one time and Sea World one time, but other than that there isn't anywhere I've been or would rather go. I'm skipping my Six Flags trip with friends because I don't really like anything other than Disneyland.
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Like Macklin a lot, but I just don't see him winning this fight. If it goes to decision though you never know... Martinez isn't exactly Mr. Popular with judges out here in america....which brings me to a different point. Does JCC Jr just have to survive til the 12th round to get the win if he fights Sergio? >__>..We all know how Arum works...
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I expect Macklin to give Martinez problems, I think the way to beat a guy like Martinez is to pressure him and not let his physical gifts play that big a part in the fight. Macklin is a guy who like to apply pressure behind a tight guard. Should be a good, tough fight.
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