CSX, Lou Dobbs and American JingoismNothing wrong with Lou DobbsWhile I generally agree with you on the CSX issue, I can also understand the counter-argument. If our freight transportation market was full of healthy competitors, CSX would just be another company. But they do haul the lion's share...
Comic book superheroes dominate summer movie blockbusters, but are their costumes beginning to show some wear and tear? As Wanted goes on cinema release, Glasgow-based writer Mark Millar offers an insider's view on the epic clash between different generations of superheroes and picks out his own...
The Ruins (91 mins, 18) 'The Ruins' joins 'Paradise Lost' and 'Hostel' in the recent parade of horror films designed to discourage Americans from renewing their passports. This time, the jingoism is aimed at Mexico, where four students are stranded on top of...
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A COMMITTED THESPIAN OR A THEATRE AFICIONADO TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE BARD'S 400-YEAR-OLD WORKS GIVE INSPIRATION AND INSTRUCTION TO THE MODERN LEADER Life in a big corporation offers real lessons in what power can do to people, the consequences of fierce...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We aren't very welcoming when it comes to sports more popular in other countries. Just look at soccer, rugby, and Formula I racing, all of which we often dismiss as second-class pastimes. But there's one international sport that just might break through our jingoism: rally car...
Byline: EMILY BRYSON YORK eyork@adage.com American brands: Red, white and battered. Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Colgate-Palmolive and Kodak are among blue-chip U.S. brands taking a beating when it comes to how liked they are around...
War stories don't get much more harrowing or detached than Rescue Dawn (**1/2), and that's both blessing and curse for the Werner Herzog film. Based on the real-life story of Dieter Dengler, an American pilot shot down over Laos in 1966, Rescue doesn't bother much with back story...
Funding Battle Highlights American Embrace of Moronitude ORLANDO--I'm against the war. Who isn't? (Maybe the two percent who tell The New York Times/CBS poll that Iraq is going "very well.") But this column isn't about the war. It's about logic. In his new book Al Gore...
TAKE THIS BREAD: A RADICAL CONVERSION By Sara Miles Ballantine Books Z04 pages, $24.95 Progressive journalist Sara Miles is in a same-sex marriage. She attends an Episcopalian church where ministers don tie-dyed robes and offer Communion to the unbaptized. But don't tell the author of...
Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union. By John M. Belohlavek. Civil War in the North. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c. 2005. Pp. xiv, 482. $65.00, ISBN 978-0-87338-841-2.) This biography undertakes a daunting rescue mission...
Putting aside all the time-expired emotion, and some rather laughable jingoism, Arsenal fans are faced with a very simple question of priorities. Do they want to see their club slip any further away from the heart of the battle for the great trophies, while their Old...
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, by Andrew Roberts (HarperCollins, 752 pp., $35) ON the very eve of the period with which Andrew Roberts deals in his splendid new history of the English-speaking peoples, the American Republic and the British Empire almost went...
I WILL never forget a conversation I had with two twenty-something Muslims not long after 9/11. One had been born and raised in the United States, the other had come here at a young age. It was clear from our conversation, though they gingerly avoided putting it...
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Chief of staff and longtime close friend of Vice President Dick Cheney. Convicted felon. The conviction of Libby, for lying to FBI agents and to the grand jury investigating the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity,...
Byline: JULIAN RENDELL When Manchester United football club is owned by an American, and Harrod's is controlled by an Egyptian, German stewardship of Mini is just another fact of life in the ebb and flow of global capitalism in modern Britain. ...
FROM SECOND to 12th grade I spent at least one week each summer at a Baptist camp in rural North Carolina. One summer I spent all three months working as a dishwasher and junior counselor. Camp was where I learned to swim when I was eight and...
Thanksgiving is far and away the nicest American holiday, without jingoism, excessive religiosity or crass hustling for a buck. It is a day for family and friends, and taking in strangers - a day that reaches back to the very origins of the Republic. Historians debate whether...
Analysing the metrics used to justify this week's takeover bids, I can't help but wonder if three have been overlooked: disingenuous self-interest, jingoism and vanity. NTL's GBP4.74bn bid for ITV, which has been turned down by ITV's board and effectively blocked by BSkyB's...
With less than a month to go until the elections, two conclusions can already be drawn: Martians have really nailed that mind-control thing, and they might as well serve state lawmakers as World Series party snacks. If aliens aren't controlling the public, how do you...
I LIKE the cut of Tom Lehman's jib. Always have done, and as the Ryder Cup gets closer he continues to impress with his thoughtful approach to the American captaincy. Unlike his predecessors, Hal Sutton and Curtis Strange, the quietly-spoken Minnesotan gives the impression...
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