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General Clark is "very disappointed in the Senate" for not committing to a more open policy concerning gays in the military.
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Whether it’s learning how to use a Blackberry or learning how to "twit," General Clark is confident that politicians we’ll always be able to connect with their constituencies.
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Today there are probably more Democratic politicians who have served in the military than Republicans, says General Clark. Yet history has branded the Dems as the "Mama Party."
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"Clearly we’re watching the emergence of increased military capabilities in China" says General Clark. What does this mean?
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General Clark suspects that somewhere inside Pakistan there is a persuasive intelligence group that’s unconvinced of America’s commitment to their country outside of our interest in Bin Laden.
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The military always knew better than to invade Iraq in 2003, but we will not leave the country in a Somalia-like situation—without a government or any national institutions.
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A conversation with the former U.S. general.
A sentiment registering somewhere between disgust and loathing rose up in my chest yesterday when I read that Delaware Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell had claimed on the site LinkedIn […]
Yesterday, Howard University hosted a panel discussion on "The Poetry of Science" featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins. Among subjects, Tyson and Dawkins discussed the prospects for life on […]
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Directing doesn’t just mean directing feature films anymore. Almost everyone has access to video recorders these days, and they can begin directing from their iPhones.
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The only monsters that have scared the filmmaker are the ones from "Alien" and "Phantom of the Opera." But he is "mortally afraid" of cops, big churches, and politicians.
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Monster creation is not a mechanical or algebraic process. "What is important is that you riff, you riff by instinct, and you riff with the best you can."
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The filmmaker grew up Catholic but is now agnostic. He prefers to abandon himself to the embrace, or perhaps indifference, of the Universe.
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Things are constantly flying through your hands as you’re trying to shape the product, says the filmmaker.
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The vampires from "Twilight" and other recent shows have been "defanged" and combined with the bad boy romantic lead myth from gothic fiction. The filmmaker interprets this as a sign […]
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Western culture teaches us to understand the world in terms of binaries. That's why the myths we’ve created to explain the world need both angels and demons.
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A conversation with the filmmaker and author.
"Rahm Emanuel’s expected departure is more than just your standard White House shakeup: it costs Obama the man with the political grit and muscle to make his dreams come true."
"Experiments on monkeys suggest that the animals can recognise and react to their own image in a mirror. They altered their posture to look at their own genitals."
"A family of four in the U.S. have put themselves up for sale offering to advertise companies for $2 a day." The Telegraph reports on the self-named 'Billboard-family'.