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RUSTON, La. — The triggerman for the highest-scoring college offense this side of Oregon can't be found anywhere in this week's NCAA passing statistics.
Stephen Warner is built like a cinder block at 6 feet and nearly 300 pounds, and not one day in his life has he been confused for a Manning.
Warner will never be a Davey O'Brien or Johnny Unitas award candidate. His throwing motion might even put him on some "don't watch" lists.
Warner is the starting center for Louisiana Tech, which would be leading the nation in scoring if not for Oregon's hanging 62 points on USC.


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President — Bill Applegate, Box 883, Marfa, TX 79843; 432-729-3349; fax: 432-729-3623
Vice President — David Pilgrim, 1323 RR 2341, Burnet, TX 78611; 512-756-4609
Secretary — Deborah Pilgrim, 1323 RR 2341, Burnet, TX 78611; 512-756-4609
Treasurer — Keith Jackson, 306 CR 2717, Alto, TX 75925; 936-675-2047
Membership Administrator — Alexandria Hahn, 5045 South East McKinney St., Rice, TX 75155; 254-931-0915
Public Relations Officer — Don Hightower, 789 North FM 2869, Winnsboro, TX 75494; 903-857-2374
NTA Director — Mark Davis, 11919 CR 1200, Malakoff, TX 75148; 903-681-4230
Membership Options:
• Family lifetime (husband & wife) — $300
• Lifetime (payable $25 monthly) — $250
• Lifetime oldtimer (age 70 or over) — $25
• Business membership — $25
• Lifetime Business — $300
• Family membership (2 members) — $20
• Single membership — $15
• Junior membership (under 16) — $5
• 1-year subscription to Trapper & Predator Caller (members only) — $13
Payments for dues are non-refundable.
Complete membership application on first page of association section and send dues to:
TTFHA, Membership Administrator
Alexandria Hahn
5045 South East McKinney St.
Rice, TX 75155
Review the new procedures regarding trapping tip submissions and prizes as well as display advertising; look for them in the Texas Fur Trails. A special thanks to Tom Fisher of Real Ecology for donating the KB Compound Predator Traps that will be awarded to the winners of the trap tips.
I realize how hard it is to interest or motivate people when fur prices are low and that is one reason to focus on nuisance animal work. Your Association has established a Nuisance Animal Control program for its members. The names and contact information of trappers willing to participate are provided to state agencies as well as individuals and companies looking for someone to help them out. We also post this list on our web site. I have personally received work from this program. Contact Sammy Petty at (254) 471-3128 if you have an interest. Members, don't forget to take advantage of free classified advertising in the Texas Fur Trails.
Dave Hastings still needs your stories, news, pictures and anything else of interest to keep the Texas Fur Trails first class. Material from all across the country is welcome. He is particularly looking for some photos to be used for the covers of future issues of the magazine. We really need you to send in something for the magazine; some of us are pretty well tapped out on ideas and stories. I would really hate to see the quality of the magazine deteriorate, but this is likely to happen if the members don't help out. Everyone has at least one story of an event that took place during his or her lifetime. We can use stories from just about anywhere. Dave is willing to work with anything. He will make sure that all submissions are professionally presented in the magazine. This really is a growing concern or I would not be begging for material. If you have any reservations or concerns about sending in something, call Dave or call me and we will do our best to put you at ease. Those of you who have submitted material for the magazine are most appreciated; without your effort the Texas Fur Trails would not be the fine publication it has become.
We could use a candidate to fill the vacancy in the district 5 director position. Hunter Bodenchuk moved to Van Horn and filled the vacancy in district 6 created upon the resignation of Michael Morris. Should you have an interest or know of a possible candidate, please contact me. If you experience any problems with your membership status or magazine subscriptions, contact the Membership Administrator directly for faster results.
Animal rights activists are infiltrating Texas and have been working to destroy our way of life. We have seen it in state agencies in the past, but now we should be aware that biologists are promoting their personal agendas through research and studies. It is hard to dispute the work of biologists as they are generally believed to be educated and credible with documented grounds for their opinions and recommendations. Documentation can be biased, inaccurate, misinterpreted, incomplete or irrelevant to the study. Regardless, misleading results may accompany biased recommendations. Bear this in mind as we are seeing this more and more and it is likely happening in Texas.
According to the New Mexico Trappers Association Tracker, the New Mexico Federal District Court refused to elevate the status of wolves to threatened or endangered, which protects persons who are fully complying with the law from prosecution under the Endangered Species Act.
David Pilgrim is making preparations for the spring rendezvous in Greenville on April 19 & 20; contact him regarding any questions pertaining to this or future rendezvous. Bear in mind that the Association maintains policy forbidding pets or other live animals in the building at every rendezvous and we will be strictly enforcing this policy in the future.
Share your thoughts with any board member regarding what you would like to see our Association accomplish. Many of the achievements we have made are results of membership input. The Association is in process of reviewing and restructuring all committee assignments. If you would like to serve on a committee or offer your services in some other way, please contact me or any other officer or director.
Since animals reproduce, trapping and fur harvesting utilizes a renewable resource. Many of the furs harvested in America are exported which helps to reduce the federal trade deficit – trappers are working to strengthen America, not to destroy her. We are attempting to schedule several outreach activities over the next year and your participation would be most appreciated. If you are ready to help out with promoting and preserving trapping, let us know. We would like to put your unique talents to work for the benefit of all and future generations. Our antler drive was a huge success. We will continue to accept antlers at each rendezvous. Please bring as many as you can part with and they are acceptable in any condition; they all have value. If you are interested in buying antlers for crafts or other purposes, Keith Jackson will make you a deal from what has been donated. I have bobcat tags for anyone needing their cats tagged; I can tag them anytime or at the spring rendezvous if you like. When everyone works together we accomplish great things – keep it up, you are appreciated! — Bill Applegate

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Negotiation Excellence Seminar for Automotive Suppliers
The Grand Circus Detroit, 1570 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI, 48226 MI, Stany Zjednoczone
Date: April 18th - 19th
What is the objective of the seminar?
9 out of 10 companies use an unstructured and unsystematic approach when responding to Requests for Proposals (RFQs) and the pricing of Big Deals. Furthermore, when negotiating prices with customers, 85% of all companies underestimate their own power position. This frequently leads to situations where money or deals are left on the table.
It is a myth that every deal is unique. In reality the basic power mechanics are always similar. Therefore, leading Automotive Suppliers have started to adopt systems that assist the sales force in understanding and managing the own power position, set big deal prices and efficiently prepare for negotiations. These companies have improved their profitability by up to 5% and their hit-rate by up to 25%.
Simon-Kucher has consulted over 100 automotive suppliers. This negotiation excellence intensive seminar will train you in best-practice negotiation systems that we have shaped together with these suppliers, and enhance your individual negotiation strength.
What you will get out of this training?
- Insights into best practices
- Tools to prepare negotiations
- Case studies to train your negotiation skills
- Personal roadmap - where to further improve your skills to negotiate more more successfully
What will the attendees learn?
- How to assess the power position in negotiations
- How to influence the buying center
- How to sell value
- How to handle objections
- How to avoid negotiation pitfalls
Who is the seminar for?
The seminar is geared towards sales managers, sales representatives, and key account managers from Automotive Suppliers
Investment: $2,400
Food and drinks during seminar and networking dinner are complimentary. There are a limited number participants to maximize the effectiveness of the training and places tend to fill up quickly, so please register early. After we review your submission we will send you a separate link to pay the $2,400 investment fee.
Cancelation Policy: If for any reason you are not able to attend, you may send someone in your place. If that does not work for you, we will refund your payment if you cancel up to 4 weeks prior to the training (any time before March 21, 2018). If for some reason the training is cancelled, you will receive a 100% refund of your payment.
All participants will receive a detailed hard-copy guide to best practices in negotiation management. You will be supplied with best-practice tools to prepare negotiations, and will employ these tools in many interactive exercises which will be geared towards a current negotiation of yours. This procedure assures that the seminar can be applied immediately, and you can spread the best practices after the seminar in your organization.
We know from experience that this seminar is extremely valuable to the participants and their companies. If after attending the workshop you feel that our ideas and tools will not help you to win negotiations, we will refund your investment of $2,400.
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Ft. Drum soldier from NYC killed in Afghanistan
Soldier's unit attacked by insurgents
Ft. Drum soldier from NYC killed in Afghanistan
Soldier's unit attacked by insurgents
Military officials say a 24-year-old soldier from New York City has been killed in Afghanistan by insurgents who attacked his unit.
The Pentagon says Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis of Staten Island died Wednesday in Ghani Province in an attack that involved an improvised explosive device and small arms fire. Ollis was an infantryman in the 10th Mountain Division's 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Drum in northern New York.
Ollis joined the Army in August 2006. After serving in Germany and Fort Campbell in Kentucky, he arrived at Fort Drum in November 2011. He previously had done tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. His unit was deployed to Afghanistan in January.
Ollis is survived by his mother and father.


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Leaping Lizards: Counting (MathStart 1 Series)
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Stuart J. Murphy travels all over the UnitedStates talking to thousands of kids. And you'll never believe what they talk about: MATH! Stuart shows kids that they use math every day to share a pizza, spend their allowance, even sort socks. Stuart writes funny stories about math and if you read his books, you'll start to see the fun in math, too.
Leaping Lizards
The show's about to begin but where are all the lizards? Slowly they start to arrive in groups of 5 and 10. Will all 50 make it in time? An introduction to counting by 5s and 10s.
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April 14, 2007
SAN JOSE, Calif. -
No. 8 San Jose State University capitalized on man advantages to extend its winning streak to seven games with a 12-9 victory over No. 13 UC Santa Barbara on Saturday morning, April 14. SJSU used a four-goal first period to build a lead over the Gauchos early in the game and despite a fourth-quarter comeback, UCSB dropped the game. Santa Barbara falls to13-16 overall and 2-7 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation while the Spartans move to 13-9 on the season and 6-4 in the MPSF.
Neither team got on the board until 1.5 minutes had passed when Geraldine Hazlett tallied the Spartans' first goal at the 6:26 mark. Senior Alexis Higlett extended San Jose State's lead to 2-0 on a goal at 5:16. The Gauchos were able to responded shortly with a goal from sophomore utility Gillian Morgan at the five-minute mark. UCSB sophomore attacker Chrissy Elles tied the game with 4:26 left to play in the first period.
The Spartans regained the lead at 2:47 with a goal by Tanya Torres, her first of two in the game. The Gauchos tied the game again at 1:25 before the Spartans took the lead they would not relinquish for the remainder of the game at 0:56 on a goal by Deanna Lowry. Lowry's goal also gave San Jose State a 4-3 advantage heading into the second stanza.
In the second quarter, San Jose State notched three more goals to pull ahead of the Gauchos, 7-4. Torres picked up her second goal of the game at 7:37 and Higlett followed with the second of her hat trick at 2:42. Freshman Bridgett McKee scored her first goal of the game at 1:37. Santa Barbara did not go scoreless in the second period and added a goal of its own at the 5:18 mark.
Deanna Lowry opened the second half with a six-on-five goal at 6:25. The Spartans added three more goals in the third quarter while Aimee Stachowski notched Santa Barbara's fifth goal on a penalty shot scored on Spartan goalie, Kendra Adama. The Gauchos' sixth goal came at the 0:05 mark of the quarter to bring UCSB within five, 11-6, at the end of three complete periods.
In the final quarter, the Gauchos rallied with three goals to cut the Spartans lead down to three. UCSB sophomore defender Amanda Tipton led off the stanza with a man-advantage goal at 7:10. Morgan followed with her second goal of the game at 6:13 to bring the score to 11-8. McKee helped to keep the Spartans' lead with her second goal of the game at 2:34. Gaucho senior center Sarah Kovach scored the last goal of the game for both teams at 1:33 to bring the final score to 12-9.
In the cage, Adama led the Spartans' to victory with 14 saves. The Gauchos' Jenny Gonzales tallied 10 saves in the game.
The will take on No. 18 Santa Clara University at 3 p.m. on Saturday before traveling to Stanford to play the top-ranked Cardinal on Sunday.
UC Santa Barbara 3 1 2 3 9
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So cute is seiyuu and orthodontics poster girl Emiri Kato that she reports being mistaken for a precocious little girl on a recent shopping expedition to obtain cosmetics.
Emiryun reports the incident in a recent Tweet:
I went to buy some cosmetics, and the 50-something shop assistant told me this:
"What! You're 29!? I thought you were an elementary schooler!!
I was thinking even elementary schoolers are interested in makeup now… sorry about that!"
This is the first time anyone has mistaken me for an elementary schooler… this is overdoing it!
The consensus from her photographs seems to be that this is a believable episode rather than a Hiranoesque flight of fancy:
Though on the other hand, given the looks of Japan's JS population of late this may not be as flattering a mistake as first thought…


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A record 40 bowl games dot the landscape over the next four weeks, with the national title game to follow Jan. 11.
Some should be ignored because the teams involved frankly aren't very good (three 5-7 teams are scattered throughout the schedule).
Some should be ignored on the general principle of a team that fires its coach effectively has conceded its season is a failure (here's looking at you, Georgia, Miami and Southern California).
Some should be ignored because most people either lack the ability or the technology to watch two games at once.
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Many American adjunct lagers use corn (and rice). Popcorn is just a version of corn that is a bit gimmicky. I had one of those and thought it okay, quaffable.
Sunking Osiris, that's where it's at.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
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Sunking Osiris, that's where it's at.
I brought home 4 cans of this.
Feeling the growl again
Many American adjunct lagers use corn (and rice). Popcorn is just a version of corn that is a bit gimmicky. I had one of those and thought it okay, quaffable.
Sunking Osiris, that's where it's at.
I wouldn't say it's necessarily gimmicky. Sun King really tries to stay true to the local theme, even as they grow. Popcorn is hardcore Indiana. My sister's father-in-law, a southern Indiana native, was bitten by Orvil Reddenbacker's dog when he was a child.
I hope you like their Indians beer I threw in your box. The 4-pack I bought was the only time I saw that particular one for sale.
"If you want to be a bad a$s, then do what a bad a$s does. There's your pep talk for today. Go Run." -- Slo_Hand
I am spaniel - Crusher of Treadmills
I'll accept that
Popcorn is hardcore Indiana.
Popcorn is hardcore Indiana.
That makes sense. The town of Valparaiso still holds an annual popcorn festival each year. There used to be a large Reddenbacker plant on Hwy 30 near there but I think it's something else now.
Confirmed this yesterday. The Osiris is very tasty.
Here is what I wrote of it, "A nose full of citrusy flowers with a wonderful hop in the mouth. Another gift from the beer fairy." I had mine by a campfire on a night I will never forget, for real. Yummy.
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I received this email today
A Message from Sun King Brewing Co. :
Bourbon Barrel Johan the Barleywine is an extremely limited release, with that being said, we set a reservation policy. You are receiving this email because you secured one reservation for one can. There were only 125 cans available for reservation and all 125 cans were reserved in 60 seconds. You will be able to pick your reserved can at the brewery in the Tasting Room on Monday, January 28th. Our doors wll open at 10:00 AM. We suggest that since you have a can reserved that you wait until after 11:00 AM to pick up your reservation. The remainder of the cans that were not reserved will be released at 10:00 AM and we anticipate a line. These cans will be available one can per person, with valid ID, in-person (you can not pick up a reservation for someone else or have someone else pick up your reservation), along with your printed copy of your resercvation. You will NOT be able to purchase a can for another individual.
Velvet Fog, our World Beer Cup Gold Medal winning Belgian –Style Dark Strong, will also be available in the Tasting Room on January 28th. There is a much larger quantity of this beer and therefore no limit to how much Velvet Fog each individual purchases.
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Well if I don't have conflicting meetings at work I will try to take a REALLY early lunch and be in line for that. If I miss out I will walk away with my Velvet Fog as a consolation prize.
And shame on you for not throwing us locals an FYI when you saw the reservation thing coming up.
I friended them on facebook and they practically spam my wall, curious how I never saw that.
I only happened across it by chance. I was on a rather long and boring conference call Monday and was surfing Facebook about a half hour before the online reservation thing. I figured I'd give it a shot and got lucky.
Sure, I'll take cans of whatever you can get me.
Looks like Fistful of Hops is now a year-round offering, but the hop profile will change with the seasons.
Not a fan but glad they are adding more "keepers".
Looks like Fistful of Hops is now a year-round offering, but the hop profile will change with the seasons.
"He conquers who endures" - Persius "Every workout should have a purpose. Every purpose should link back to achieving a training objective." - Spaniel
Not a fan but glad they are adding more "keepers".
+1. I like their standard three but given their current size and diversity of good beers, I was getting kind of curious why they weren't starting to do that.
And, the one I had was ok, and I'd try the other 3 seasonals.


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In an interview in this month's Maxim, Jennifer Love Hewitt credits herself with launching the trend of vajazzling, and says that she still does it sometimes, and that because of her role in the phenomenon, strangers come up to her and offer to show her their be-rhinestoned vaginas.
Sounds like Hewitt lives kind of a weird life, but that's not really the point. The point is that it got me thinking about how many vagina decorations we've seen come and go ever since it became acceptable to remove the decoration that nature gave us: pubic hair. It's like without pubes, we're still overcome with the desire to put something –anything — on our mons pubis, as if to prove that we can only thwart Mother Nature so much before she makes us pay for our transgressions.
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Card files in the Reference Room, broken down into separate sections for manuscripts, broadsides, graphics, maps, sheet music, Afro-Americana, genealogical resources, and newspapers. The manuscripts catalog provides item-level access to several large manuscript collections.
PC 1 - Manuscript catalog
This catalog indexes at the item level nearly 1 million manuscript resources, including letters, diaries, accounts, and minutes. It is primarily a name index. Many collections have finding aids.
PC 2 - LCP in HSP catalog
This catalog is a name index to the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) manuscript collections. HSP administers these collections according to a cooperative agreement with LCP.
PC 3 - Broadsides
This catalog indexes the HSP's graphics holdings of broadsides and World War I and World War II Posters (available through title only).
PC 4 - Graphics catalog
- 4a - catalog of images, portraits, and trade cards in the formats of prints, drawings, watercolors, and photographs.
- 4b - catalog of coats of arms; a key is available at the beginning of the catalog.
- 4c - catalog of insurance surveys held in the Mutual Assurance Company and the Philadelphia Contributionship.
- 4d - catalog of HSP's holdings of maps, atlases and all other cartographic material.
PC 5 - Music catalog
This catalog indexes HSP's holdings of sheet music.
PC 6 - Afro-Americana in HSP and LCP
This catalog is a name index to manuscript collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP) and the Historical Society containing Afro-Americana for the period of 1553-1906.
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Finding malicious code is not too difficult if you have a fingerprint or signature to look for. Traditional signature-based antivirus tools have been doing this effectively for years. But malware often morphs, adapts and evolves to hide itself, and a simple one-to-one match no longer is adequate.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is developing guidance for a technique called approximate matching to help automate the task of identifying suspicious code that otherwise would fall to human analysts. The draft document is based on work of NIST's Approximate Matching Working Group.
"Approximate matching is a promising technology designed to identify similarities between two digital artifacts," the draft of Special Publication 800-168 says. "It is used to find objects that resemble each other or to find objects that are contained in another object."
The technology can be used to filter data for security monitoring and for digital forensics, when analysts are trying to spot potential bad actors either before or after a security incident.
Approximate matching is a generic term describing any method for automating the search for similarities between two digital artifacts or objects. An "object" is an "arbitrary byte sequence, such as a file, which has some meaningful interpretation."
Humans can understand the concept of similarity intuitively, but defining the aspects of similarity for algorithms can be challenging. In approximate matching, similarity is defined for algorithms in terms of the characteristics of artifacts being examined. These characteristics can include byte sequences, internal syntactic structures or more abstract semantic attributes similar to what human analysts would look for.
Different methods for approximate matching operate at different levels of abstraction. These range from generic techniques at the lowest level to detect common byte sequences, to more abstract analysis that approach the level of human evaluation. "The overall expectation is that lower level methods would be faster, and more generic in their applicability, whereas higher level ones would be more targeted and require more processing," the document explains.
Approximate matching uses two types of queries: resemblance and containment. Two successive versions of a piece of code are likely to resemble each other, and a resemblance query simply identifies two pieces of code that are substantially similar. With a containment query, two objects of substantially different size, such as a file and a whole-disk image, are examined to determine whether the smaller object, or something similar to it, is contained in the large one.
As described in the document, approximate matching usually is used to filter data, as in blacklisting known malicious artifacts or anything closely resembling them. "However, approximate matching is not nearly as useful when it comes to whitelisting artifacts, as malicious content can often be quite similar to benign content," NIST warns.
The publication lays out essential requirements of approximate matching functions as well as the factors—including sensitivity and robustness, precision and recall and security—that determine the reliability of the results.
Comments on the publication should be sent by March 21 to email@example.com with "Comments on SP 800-168" in the subject.
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As stated, approximate matching is a promising technology designed to identify similarities between two digital artifacts.
1. Domains of usefulness identified included filtering data for security monitoring, digital forensics, and other application.
2. Two types of similarity are identified, resemblance and containment.
3. Four use cases are postulated, object similarity detection, cross correlation, embedded object detection, and fragment detection.
First, I offer a suggestion to expand the domains of utility. The domain of utility can be expanded to include the detection of unauthorized use or reuse of proprietary information, copyrighted material, and trade secrets. Here the fragment detection use case would be especially applicable. Here the type of similarity expected may be either resemblance or containment.
Second, I offer the suggestion to expand the universe of deep detection by employing Carnegie Mellon University's Function Extraction (FX) methods to reveal intended functions that may then be subject to approximate matching algorithms to determine similarity or identity.
Third, I offer the suggestion to expend the universe of deep semantics through cognate computing, for example, IBM Watson.
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The Prairie Fire got off to a good start, but Carroll University responded and won 30-8 Saturday night at Schneider Stadium in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Knox (0-8, 0-7 MWC) struck first when sophomore Derek Mortensen (Crystal Lake, Illinois) scored on a 2-yard run with 13:42 to play in the second quarter. Carroll (6-2, 5-2 MWC) returned a blocked extra point to make it a 6-2 score.
The Pioneers took the lead at 9-6 on a 1-yard run by Joe Beckstrand at the 12:20 mark of the first half. Carroll quarterback Ryan Young found Tyler Ostrander less than five minutes later to extend the lead to 16-6.
The Prairie Fire cut the deficit to one possession at 16-8 on a sack and safety by sophomore defensive lineman Steve Bora (Northfield, Illinois) with 7:45 to play in the third quarter.
Carroll didn't allow Knox to score again while Beckstrand added touchdown runs of 23-yards and 13-yards late in the third quarter and early in the fourth for the final points of the game.
The Prairie Fire outgained the Pioneers 357-352, but threw three interceptions. Carroll did not turn the ball over. Knox continued its balanced offensive approach by passing for 184 yards and running for 173. The Pioneers passed for 233 and rushed for 119, led by Beckstrand's 25 carries for 138 yards.
Mortensen led the Knox ground game with 20 carries and 83 yards. Sophomore quarterback Drew Diaz (Niles, Illinois) completed nine passes for 125 yards and threw two interceptions. Junior Mike Pinter (Naples, Florida) also threw a pick while completing four passes for 59 yards.
Junior Dustin Armstrong (Cincinnati, Ohio) had a career-best 111 yards receiving on four catches. Carroll, with one of the top defenses in the Midwest Conference, held Knox to 4-of-17 on third down conversion attempts. The Prairie Fire also managed one score during four trips in the red zone.
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PRESIDENT OBAMA inaugurated his second term Monday with something approaching a liberal manifesto: a clear statement of what he hopes to accomplish over the next four years.
Mr. Obama's second inaugural address was such a departure from the soaring generalities of some predecessors' speeches that at times it sounded as though he were still running against Mitt Romney: when he hailed "the broad shoulders of a rising middle class," for example, or when he rejected the notion that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security "make us a nation of takers."
The president anchored his address in the language and aspirations of the Declaration of Independence, but for those who listened carefully he described a second-term agenda of unusual specificity for an inaugural address: immigration reform, including more visas for engineers; voting reform; gun control; preservation of the nation's entitlement programs; investment in highways and other infrastructure; more worker training; equal pay for women; revamping the tax code to combat inequality; and more.
Facing up to the challenge of climate change received unusual and welcome prominence in the speech. So did the struggle for gay rights, which Mr. Obama placed in America's long history of expanding freedom to women, blacks and beyond. Citing the pioneers of "Seneca Falls and Selma and Stonewall," the president declared: "Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law."
Less welcome was the reappearance of one of Mr. Obama's favorite rhetorical companions, the straw man. "No single person can train all the math and science teachers we'll need." Mr. Obama declared, in a defense of his communitarian vision.
And: "[W]e reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future." The implication was that entitlement reform — essential to America's fiscal health — means abandoning the older generation. In fact, the country can safeguard its most vulnerable elderly while investing in children — but not without restructuring Medicare and Social Security. Mr. Obama recommitted himself, as he has uncounted times, to making "hard choices" to reduce the deficit. But he again offered no clue as to what those might entail.
If that absence suggested a bit of wishful thinking, another sentence suggested a barrelful: "A decade of war is now ending," Mr. Obama pronounced. That would come as news to the Afghan soldiers still dying at Taliban hands; to the families of more than 60,000 people killed in Syria in the past two years; to French soldiers who have taken on, in Mali, al-Qaeda affiliates who are as much enemies of the United States as of France; to the families of American hostages just slain in a terrorist attack in Algeria. America's adversaries are not in retreat; they will be watching Mr. Obama in his second term to see if the same can be said of the United States.


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Florals never looked so good, or so varied, than at Derek Lam's casually elegant, straight-up sweet show this season. The designer, who worked under Michael Kors for twelve years before launching his own line, has described his collection from the outset as being classic American fashion - wearable, accessible and "devoted to beauty." For spring this uncomplicated message rang loud and clear as fun and flattering full-skirted dresses, playsuits, preppy cardigans and sculpted mini-dresses in black, white, simple but striking primary hues and multi-colour floral print hit the catwalk. Corsetry detailing, hip-enhancing cuts and a handful of block-colour one-pieces (body-suits or swimsuits was the question of the day) added a little sass to the overtly wholesome looks for spring.
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"If you want peace, prepare for war." Thus counseled Roman general Flavius Vegetius Renatus over 1,600 years ago. Nine centuries before that, Sun Tzu offered essentially the same advice, and it's to him that Vegetius's line is attributed at the beginning of a film that I saw recently at Oslo's Nobel Peace Center. Yet the film cites this ancient wisdom only to reject it. After serving up a perverse potted history of the cold war, the thrust of which is that the peace movement brought down the Berlin Wall, the movie ends with words that turn Vegetius's insight on its head: "If you want peace, prepare for peace."
This purports to be wise counsel, a motto for the millennium. In reality, it's wishful thinking that doesn't follow logically from the history of the cold war, or of any war. For the cold war's real lesson is the same one that Sun Tzu and Vegetius taught: conflict happens; power matters. It's better to be strong than to be weak; you're safer if others know that you're ready to stand up for yourself than if you're proudly outspoken about your defenselessness or your unwillingness to fight. There's nothing mysterious about this truth. Yet it's denied not only by the Peace Center film but also by the fast-growing, troubling movement that the center symbolizes and promotes.
Call it the Peace Racket.
We need to make two points about this movement at the outset. First, it's opposed to every value that the West stands for -- liberty, free markets, individualism -- and it despises America, the supreme symbol and defender of those values. Second, we're talking not about a bunch of naive Quakers but about a movement of savvy, ambitious professionals that is already comfortably ensconced at the United Nations, in the European Union, and in many nongovernmental organizations. It is also waging an aggressive, under-the-media-radar campaign for a cabinet-level Peace Department in the United States. Sponsored by Ohio Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich (along with more than 60 cosponsors), House Resolution 808 would authorize a Secretary of Peace to "establish a Peace Academy," "develop a peace education curriculum" for elementary and secondary schools, and provide "grants for peace studies departments" at campuses around the country. If passed, the measure would catapult the peace studies movement into a position of extraordinary national, even international, influence.
The Peace Racket's boundaries aren't easy to define. It embraces scores of "peace institutes" and "peace centers" in the U.S. and Europe, plus several hundred university peace studies programs. As Ian Harris, Larry Fisk, and Carol Rank point out in a sympathetic overview of these programs, it's hard to say exactly how many exist -- partly because they often go by other labels, such as "security studies" and "human rights education"; partly because many "professors who infuse peace material into courses do not offer special courses with the title peace in them"; and finally because "several small liberal arts colleges offer an introductory course requirement to all incoming students which infuses peace and justice themes." Many primary and secondary schools also teach peace studies in some form.
Peace studies initiatives may train students to be social workers, to work in churches or community health organizations, or to resolve family quarrels and neighborhood disputes. At the movement's heart, though, are programs whose purported emphasis is on international relations. Their founding father is a 77-year-old Norwegian professor, Johan Galtung, who established the International Peace Research Institute in 1959 and the Journal of Peace Research five years later. Invariably portrayed in the media as a charismatic and (these days) grandfatherly champion of decency, Galtung is in fact a lifelong enemy of freedom. In 1973, he thundered that "our time's grotesque reality" was -- no, not the Gulag or the Cultural Revolution, but rather the West's "structural fascism." He's called America a "killer country," accused it of "neo-fascist state terrorism," and gleefully prophesied that it will soon follow Britain "into the graveyard of empires."
No fan of Britain either, Galtung has faulted "Anglo-Americans" for trying to "stop the wind from blowing." If the U.S. and the U.K. oppose a dangerous development, in his view, we're causing trouble -- Milosevic, Saddam, and Osama are just the way the wind is blowing. Galtung's kind of thinking leads inexorably to the conclusion that one should never challenge any tyrant. Fittingly, he urged Hungarians not to resist the Soviet Army in 1956, and his views on World War II suggest that he'd have preferred it if the Allies had allowed Hitler to finish off the Jews and invade Britain.
Though Galtung has opined that the annihilation of Washington, D.C., would be a fair punishment for America's arrogant view of itself as "a model for everyone else," he's long held up certain countries as worthy of emulation -- among them Stalin's USSR, whose economy, he predicted in 1953, would soon overtake the West's. He's also a fan of Castro's Cuba, which he praised in 1972 for "break[ing] free of imperialism's iron grip." At least you can't accuse Galtung of hiding his prejudices. In 1973, explaining world politics in a children's newspaper, he described the U.S. and Western Europe as "rich, Western, Christian countries" that make war to secure materials and markets: "Such an economic system is called capitalism, and when it's spread in this way to other countries it's called imperialism." In 1974, he sneered at the West's fixation on "persecuted elite personages" such as Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov. Thirty years later, he compared the U.S. to Nazi Germany for bombing Kosovo and invading Afghanistan and Iraq. For Galtung, a war that liberates is no better than one that enslaves.
His all-time favorite nation? China during the Cultural Revolution. Visiting his Xanadu, Galtung concluded that the Chinese loved life under Mao: after all, they were all "nice and smiling." While "repressive in a certain liberal sense," he wrote, Mao's China was "endlessly liberating when seen from many other perspectives that liberal theory has never understood." Why, China showed that "the whole theory about what an 'open society' is must be rewritten, probably also the theory of 'democracy -- and it will take a long time before the West will be willing to view China as a master teacher in such subjects."
Nor has Galtung changed his tune over the decades. Recently he gave a lecture that was a smorgasbord of wild accusations about America's refusing to negotiate with Saddam, America's secret plans to make war in Azerbaijan, Nazis in the State Department, the CIA's responsibility for 6 million covert murders, and so on. Galtung called for a Truth and Reconciliation Committee in Iraq -- to treat America's crimes, not the Baathists'.
Galtung's use of the word "peace" to legitimize totalitarianism is an old Communist tradition. In August 1939, when the Nazis and Soviets signed their nonaggression pact, the same Western Stalinists who had been calling for war against Germany did an about-face and began to praise peace. (After Hitler invaded Russia, the Stalinists reversed themselves again, demanding that the West help Stalin crush the Third Reich.) The peace talk, in short, was really about sympathizing with Communism, not peace. And it continued after the war, when Stalin's Western supporters whitewashed his monstrous regime and denounced anti-Communists as warmongering crypto-fascists. "Peace conferences" and "friendship committees" drew hordes of liberal dupes, who didn't grasp that their new "friends" were not ordinary Russians but the jailers of ordinary Russians -- and that the committees were about not "friendship" but deception, exploitation, and espionage.
The people running today's peace studies programs give a good idea of the movement's illiberal, anti-American inclinations. The director of Purdue's program is coeditor of Marxism Today, a collection of essays extolling socialism; Brandeis's peace studies chairman has justified suicide bombings; the program director at the University of Missouri authorized a mass e-mail urging students and faculty to boycott classes to protest the Iraq invasion; and the University of Maine's program director believes that "humans have been out of balance for centuries" and that "a unique opportunity of this new century is to engage in the creation of balance and harmony between yin and yang, masculine and feminine energies." (Such New Age babble often mixes with the Marxism in peace studies jargon.)
What these people teach remains faithful to Galtung's anti-Western inspiration. First and foremost, they emphasize that the world's great evil is capitalism -- because it leads to imperialism, which in turn leads to war. The account of capitalism in David Barash and Charles Webel's widely used 2002 textbook Peace and Conflict Studies leans heavily on Lenin, who "maintained that only revolution -- not reform -- could undo capitalism's tendency toward imperialism and thence to war," and on Galtung, who helpfully revised Lenin's theories to account for America's "indirect" imperialism. Students acquire a zero-sum picture of the world economy: if some countries and people are poor, it's because others are rich. They're taught that American wealth derives entirely from exploitation and that Americans, accordingly, are responsible for world poverty.
If the image of tenured professors pushing such anticapitalist nonsense on privileged suburban kids sounds like a classic case of liberals' throwing stones at their own houses, get a load of this: America's leading Peace Racket institution is probably the University of Notre Dame's Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies -- endowed by and named for the widow of Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's, the ultimate symbol of evil corporate America. It was the Kroc Institute, by the way, that in 2004 invited Islamist scholar Tariq Ramadan to join its faculty, only to see him denied a U.S. visa on the grounds that he had defended terrorism.
Peace studies students also discover how to think in terms of "deep culture." How to prevent war between, say, the U.S. and Saddam's Iraq? Answer: examine each country's deep culture -- its key psychosocial traits, good and bad -- to understand its motives. Americans, according to this bestiary, are warlike and money-obsessed; Iraqis are intensely religious and proud. Not surprisingly, the Peace Racket's summations of deep cultures skew against the West. The deep-culture approach also avoids calling tyrants or terrorists "evil" -- for behind every atrocity, in this view, lies a legitimate grievance, which the peacemaker should locate so that all parties can meet at the negotiating table as moral equals. SUNY Binghamton, for instance, offers a peace studies course that seeks to "arrive at an understanding of contemporary violence in its ideological, cultural, and structural dimensions in a bid to move away from 'evil,' 'inhuman,' and 'uncivilized' as analytical categories."
For the Peace Racket, to kill innocents in cold blood is to buy the right to dialogue, negotiation, concessions -- and power. So students learn to identify "insurgent" or "militant" groups with the populations they purport to represent. A few years ago, a peace organization called Transcend equated the demands of the Basque terrorist group ETA with "the desires of the Basque people" -- as if a "people" were a monolithic group for whom a band of murderous thugs could presume to speak. The complaints that Transcend made about the Spanish government's "blockade positions" -- its refusal to cave to terrorist demands -- and the Spanish media's lack of "objectivity" -- their refusal to take a middle position between Spanish society and ETA terrorists -- are standard Peace Racket fare. Similarly, during Saddam's dictatorship, "peace scholars" wrote as if Iraq were equivalent to Saddam and the Baath party, entirely removing from the picture the Shiites and Kurds whom Saddam's regime subjugated, tortured, and slaughtered.
The recipes for peace that flow from such thinking seem designed not only to buttress oppression but to create more of it. For if democracies consistently followed the Peace Racket's recommendations, what they'd eventually reap would be the kind of peace found today in Havana or Pyongyang.
The Peace Racket maintains that the Western world's profound moral culpability, arising from its history of colonialism and economic exploitation, deprives it of any right to judge non-Western countries or individuals. Further, the non-West has suffered so much from exploitation that whatever offenses it commits are legitimate attempts to recapture dignity, obtain justice, and exact revenge. Have Third World terrorists taken Americans hostage? Don't call the hostages innocent victims. After all, as Americans, they're complicit in a system that has long inflicted "structural violence" (or "structural terrorism") upon the Third World poor. Donald Rothberg of San Francisco's Saybrook Institute explains: "In using the term 'structural violence,' we identify phenomena as violent that are not usually seen as violent. For example, Western economic domination."
It is this mind-set that leads peace professors to accuse the U.S. of "state terrorism," to call George W. Bush "the world's worst terrorist," and even to characterize those murdered in the Twin Towers as oppressors who, by working at investment banks and brokerage houses, were ultimately responsible for their own deaths. Barash and Webel, for instance, write sympathetically of "frustrated, impoverished, infuriated people ... who view the United States as a terrorist country" and for whom "attacks on American civilians were justified" because one shouldn't distinguish "between a 'terrorist state' and the citizens who aid and abet that state." They also approvingly quote Osama bin Laden's claim that for many "disempowered" people, "Americans are the worst terrorists in the world" -- thereby inviting students to consider Osama a legitimate spokesperson for the "disempowered." Speaking at a memorial concert on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks, George Wolfe of Ball State University's peace studies program suggested that we "reflect on what we as Americans may have done or not done, to invoke such extreme hatred." The Kroc Institute's David Cortright agrees: "We must ask ourselves . . . what the United States has done to incur such wrath."
In short, it's America that is the wellspring of the world's problems. In the peace studies world, America's role as the beacon of opportunity for generations of immigrants is mocked, its defense of freedom in World War II and the cold war is reinterpreted to its discredit, and every major postwar atrocity (the Gulag, the Cultural Revolution, genocide in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan) is ignored, minimized, or -- as with 9/11 -- blamed on the U.S. itself. One peace studies motif holds that the U.S. intentionally preserves its enemies to justify military expenses. According to a 2000 article by Michael Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, for instance, the Pentagon deplored the prospect of peace between the Koreas because it "would erase the most menacing of our putative 'rogue state' adversaries" and thus "imperil ... future military appropriations." (For Klare, North Korea is only "putatively" a rogue state.) The director of Cornell's peace studies program, Matthew Evangelista, blames the cold war on the U.S. Defense Department and claims that it ended only because a good-hearted, newly enlightened Gorbachev "heeded the advice of transnational [peace] activists." You might think that no one could fall for such nonsense. But keep in mind that the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and that students starting college in 2007 arrived in the world a year later. They don't remember the cold war -- and are ripe targets for disinformation.
As for America's response to terrorism, Barash and Webel tidily sum up the view of many peace studies professors: "A peace-oriented perspective condemns not only terrorist attacks but also any violent response to them." How should democracies respond to aggression? Hold dialogue. Make concessions. Apologize. Neville Chamberlain's 1938 capitulation to Hitler at Munich taught -- or should have taught -- that appeasement just puts off a final reckoning, giving an enemy time to gain strength. The foundation of the Peace Racket's success lies in forgetting this lesson. Peace studies students discover that the lesson of World War II is the evil of war itself and the need to prevent it by all possible means -- which, of course, is exactly what Chamberlain thought he was doing in Munich. What they learn, in short, is the opposite of the war's real lesson.
Warblogger Frank Martin described his visit to the military cemetery at Arnhem, in the Netherlands, where a teenage guide said that the Allied soldiers "were fighting for bridges; how silly that they would all fight for something like that." Martin was outraged: "I tried to explain that they weren't fighting for bridges, but for his and his families' freedom." That teenager articulated precisely the kind of thinking that peace professors seek to instill in their students -- that freedom is at best an overvalued asset that can hinder peacemaking, and at worst a lie, and that those who harp on it are either American propagandists or dupes who've fallen for the propaganda. In March, Yusra Moshtat, an associate of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, and Jan Oberg, director of the foundation, wrote that "words like democracy and freedom are deceptive, cover-ups or Unspeak." And in a 1997 speech at a Texas peace foundation, Oscar Arias, ex-president of Costa Rica and founder of his own peace foundation, described the American preoccupation with freedom versus tyranny as "obsolete," "oversimplified," and above all "dangerous," because it could lead to war. In other words, if you want to ensure peace, worry less about freedom. Appease tyranny, accept it, embrace it -- and there'll be no more war.
That's the Peace Racket's message in a nutshell -- and students find themselves graded largely on their willingness to echo it. For while the peace professor argues that terrorist positions deserve respect at the negotiating table, he seldom tolerates alternative views in the classroom. Real education exposes students to a range of ideas and trains them to think critically about all orthodoxies. Peace studies, as a rule, rejects questioning of its own guiding ideology.
Take the case of Brett Mock, who writes in FrontPage Magazine that a peace studies class he'd taken in 2004 at Ball State University -- "indoctrination rather than education," as he puts it -- had been "designed entirely to delegitimize the use of the military in the defense of our country." The teacher, George Wolfe, "would not allow any serious study of the reasons for the use of force in response to an attack," and students were expected to "parrot . . . back views we did not agree with." To get full credit, moreover, Mock reports, students had to "meditate at the Peace Studies center," "attend Interfaith Fellowship meetings," or join Peace Workers -- a group that Wolfe founded and that, according to Sara Dogan of Students for Academic Freedom, "is part of a coalition of radical groups that includes the Muslim Students Association . . . and the Young Communist League." Kyle Ellis, another Ball State student, added that "Wolfe has required students to attend a screening of the antiwar propaganda film Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the War in Iraq, without material critical of the film and representing the other side."
Then there's Andrew Saraf, who in 2006 objected publicly to the one-sidedness of a peace studies course taught at his Bethesda high school by Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy. "The 'class,'" Saraf complained, "is headed by an individual with a political agenda, who wants to teach students the 'right' way of thinking by giving them facts that are skewed in one direction." McCarthy shrugged off the criticism, having long ago admitted his course's bias: "Over the years, I've had suggestions from other teachers to offer what they call 'balance' in my courses, that I should give students 'the other side.' I'm never sure exactly what that means. After assigning students to read Gandhi I should have them also read Carl von Clausewitz? After Martin Luther King's essay against the Vietnam War, Colin Powell's memoir favoring the Persian Gulf War? After Justice William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall's views opposing the death penalty, George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein's favoring it? After a woman's account of her using a nonviolent defense against a rapist, the thwarted rapist's side?" (Note, by the way, the facile juxtaposition of Bush and Saddam.)
Mock and Saraf are the exceptions -- students who raise questions. One can begin to form a picture of the typical peace studies student by reading the testimonials by students and graduates that many of these programs have posted online. Essentially the same story occurs over and over in these accounts: the privileged upbringing; the curiosity about other cultures; the visit to the Third World, where the poverty shocks, even transforms, the student ("I ... would never be the same after experiencing what I did in Honduras"); and, finally, the readiness to swallow the peace professors' explanation for it all -- namely, that it's America's fault -- and to work for revolutionary change. Many students make it clear that they're ashamed to be American; one of them, listing her aspirations, writes, "I envision myself American, not needing to be embarrassed of it." They view themselves instead as "global citizens."
The more one considers oneself a global citizen, of course, the less one considers oneself an American citizen whose loyalty is to the Constitution and its freedoms. Each new global citizen, in fact, transfers his loyalty to the Peace Racket. No wonder these students often sound like cultists: "I have pledged my passion, dedication, and undying energy to the World Peace Program and the ongoing fight for a more peaceful world for all people." They may think that they've figured out the world ("Global Militarism and Human Survival . . . has allowed me to analyze how the United States' military agenda denies indigenous rights and crushes people's hopes for social justice all over the world"), but all they're doing is regurgitating ideological clichés.
Reading these personal accounts, I remembered being 17. I'd never been outside North America, but I'd paid attention in history class and, being curious about the world, had read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Babi Yar, 1984, John Gunther's Inside series, several books about the USSR, and much else. I had an uncle who'd been in a Nazi POW camp, a Polish-speaking grandmother who felt blessed to be an American citizen and not a Soviet vassal, and a Cuban schoolmate whose father, a journalist, Castro had tortured and blinded. I knew what totalitarianism was. The young people who get taken in by the Peace Racket, though, seem not to have had much of a clue about anything before visiting Haiti or Ghana or wherever. And their peace studies classes and international adventures don't exactly wise them up. A peace studies student at McGill University, recounting her internship with a "Cuban NGO" (as if there really were such a thing!), refers enthusiastically to her participation in "the largest demonstration in Cuban history." She doesn't elaborate, but the reference is clearly to a government-organized protest against the U.S. trade embargo. This perilously naive young woman has no idea that she was the tool of a dictatorship.
For Canadian Davis Aurini, who in a May 2007 e-mail described himself as "sorely disappointed" by his peace studies experience, his naively socialist classmates were at least as problematic as the professors. One prof consistently ridiculed Western "science and knowledge": every time he quoted a Western writer, he would mockingly add, "So he told me," then clap his hands, then repeat, "So he tooooold me!" and clap his hands again. "He thought he was some kind of native spiritualist," explained Aurini. The classes were "nothing but a disjointed ramble against anything remotely military or Western. And the students loved it."
George Orwell would have understood the attraction of privileged young people to the Peace Racket. "Turn-the-other-cheek pacifism," he observed in 1941, "only flourishes among the more prosperous classes, or among workers who have in some way escaped from their own class. The real working class ... are never really pacifist, because their life teaches them something different. To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it." If so many young Americans have grown up insulated from the realities that Vegetius and Sun Tzu elucidated centuries ago, and are therefore easy marks for the Peace Racket, it's thanks to the success of the very things the Peace Racket despises above all -- American capitalism and American military preparedness.
What's alarming is that these students don't plan to spend their lives on some remote mountainside in Nepal contemplating peace, harmony, and human oneness. They want to remake our world. They plan to become politicians, diplomats, bureaucrats, journalists, lawyers, teachers, activists. They'll bring to these positions all the mangled history and misbegotten ideology that their professors have handed down to them. Their careers will advance; the Peace Racket's influence will spread. And as it does, it will weaken freedom's foundations.
This article appeared in City Journal, 9/5/2007
Bruce Bawer is a writer and a translator. His latest book is called "While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within." His essays have appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other places; his poems have been published in such periodicals as Paris Review and Poetry; and he has reviewed books for The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, The Wall Street Journal, London Review of Books, and the (London) Times Literary Supplement. He was born in New York City and now lives in Oslo, Norway. Contact him at his website, http://www.brucebawer.com.
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Judith Levy of Ricochet takes a look at the newly elected Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani. Here are my takeaways from her analysis of the man I call "Sh*t Squared" (so as to distinguish him from his election rivals, Sh*t to the third and fourth power):
1. Rouhani is a disciple of Ayatollah Khomeini. He stayed close to Khomeini while in exile and then moved up the political system once Khomeini seized power in Iran.
2. More recently, Rouhani has been aligned with former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani believes at least somewhat in a free market economy, and he prefers not to antagonize America and the West unnecessarily. Rouhani apparently shares these views.
3. This distinguishes Rouhani from President Ahmadinejad and makes him a better choice for Iranians. But it doesn't make Iran appreciably less dangerous to America's underlying interests in the Middle East or to Israel.
4. In this regard, Rouhani has not wavered in his support for the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Why the staunch backing? According to Levy, it's because "Rouhani admires Assad's absolute rejection of any kind of rapprochement with Israel, ever."
5. Perhaps the biggest tip-off to Rouhani is the fact that Iran's Guardian Council culled the original list of presidential candidates from about 680 names down to eight. Rafsanjani was among those disqualified. The fact that Rouhani remained standing strongly suggests that he is on board with the regime's core policy objectives.
6. Perhaps the most central of these core objectives is the development of nuclear weapons. Rouhani backs Iran's nuclear program.
7. Rouhani's image as a moderate, and his tendency to avoid inflammatory language, will help take heat off Iran as it continues with its nuclear program. It also diminishes even further the likelihood that the U.S. under President Obama would back a decision by Israel to attack Iran's nuclear capability.
8. At the end of the day, Supreme Leader Mohammad Khameini will retain the last word on anything of consequence. Naturally, this includes nuclear policy. He has already warned Rouhani not to make concessions to the West on that (or any) score.


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The genocide in Rwanda was an emblematic failure of the international community. The world has since made important strides in acting on those lessons, but this work still faces setbacks. The international community cannot claim to care about atrocity crimes and then shrink from the commitment required to prevent them – whether in the Central African Republic or Syria.
In an interview, Robert Kaplan says: 'The United States can preserve the peace [in the Asia Pacific] by seeking not domination, but a favorable balance of power with China. It must at some level allow China its rightful place in the Western Pacific.'
Europe should be working to integrate, not isolate, Russia. Punitive isolation is what the Treaty of Versailles did to post-World War I Germany, leading to Hitler's rise and World War II. Instead, the West and Russia have everything to gain by Russia's coming closer to the EU.
I feel sorry for the people of Crimea who fell for Russia's lie. The regime will soon show them that even the subtropics can have polar nights. Still, the most powerful Ukrainian army – that of freedom and democracy – marches on, fulfilling its mission, including the liberation of Russia.
Condoleezza Rice states: 'The recent events [in Ukraine and elsewhere] should be a wake-up call to all Americans. I know we are tired and worried about our problems at home, but we cannot eschew the responsibilities of leadership and embolden those who don't share our values.'
By provoking US allies, Beijing is forcing Washington to choose between abandoning its friends or going to war with China. Both believe the other will back down. But there is a high chance that they are both wrong. America's best move then is to change the game in Asia, by offering to share power if China behaves responsibly.
It took three weeks for President Obama to publicly address the crisis of more than 250 Nigerian school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. Evidence is mounting that, beyond its strategic self-interest, the US does not have an operating philosophy on defending human rights.
The US and Britain must lend surveillance and other technology help locate the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria. By doing so, they are sending a message that friends of Nigeria will not stand by if the terrorist campaign continues. A new 'safe schools' initiative must also be put in place to reassure worried parents that schools are secure.
History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. We have seen that isolationism only results in greater conflicts later. It is only through the cooperation of nations that firm and clear lines can be drawn and that others can be enticed in.
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By targeting the Ukrainian government with a cyber weapon, the Russians are able to effectively engage in an aggressive, kinetic act without actually declaring war, or other countries reacting like it is an act of war. This will not last forever.
The strategy of the West regarding Russian aggression in Ukraine should be to complicate Vladimir Putin's planning. He should be given options to avoid conflict. But he should also be made aware of the negative consequences for Russia that would follow armed conflict.
The coming peace talks in Geneva provide hope for setting lines for a cease-fire in Syria. To draw those lines, three separate homelands must be created, with input by outside powers. Some will say this is impossible. Not so.
Mandela is revered worldwide as champion of nonviolence and peace. Human rights activists and freedom fighters around the globe aim to follow his example of reconciliation, forgiveness, and non-retributive justice. This philosophy will be vital for future transitions in Iran and Syria.
The Obama administration faces pressure from Congress for more sanctions against Iran. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani faces increasing pressure from hardliners who oppose negotiations with the US. But a diplomatic deal is still clearly preferable for all sides.
China's President Xi Jinping is neither a reformer nor a non-reformer. He is a pragmatist – a disciple of former Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping. Mr. Xi seeks to build the overall vitality of the Chinese nation, and to do this, he feels the Party must maintain absolute control.
Things are getting worse for the United States, not because of our weak policies but because the times are changing, our capabilities and energies limited, and we haven't recognized it yet. We can't afford to keep on doing those things we shouldn't have been doing in the first place.
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