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View Article  The Neocons and U.S. foreign policy

Debate: Neoconservative foreign policy — which is to say bellicose nationalism crossed with an idealistic faith in America’s capacity to transform the world for the better — is dead.... Our central task today is to devise a new way of thinking about the post-9/11 world.

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View Article  Starbucks reviewed

P.J. O'Rourke reviews a new book about the rise of the coffee chain Starbucks in this week's New York Times Book Review. O'Rourke doesn't much like the book under review but he does provide this great quote from the book: Howard Schultz, [Starbuck's] chairman, [ says]: “People weren’t drinking coffee.

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