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IMHO the cultural war between Apollo and Dionysus is over. The classic dichotomy of Thinking and Feeling as embodied by the 2 sons of the Greek god Zeus which has been the center of the cultural war in the US since the 60's has been won. The 2 events of 1969 which will illustrate this point are the Apollonian achievements of the first man on the Moon, (aptly named Apollo 11) and the Dionysian Woodstock Music Festival during the Summer of Love. Among people who were old enough to remember, these 2 events very neatly cleave society as to which...

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WE FORGIVE ALL YOU BOURGEOIS PIGS. PEUGEOT It is not for us to hold a grudge-not even against ignorant swine. And so we come back to America, where you think your replacement starter should come as fast as your cherished McNuggets. A starter is not a McNugget. It is a creation wrenched from the mind of man. It is a symbol. It is Art. Sadly, you cannot understand such things. So this time, like the indulgent parent, we add features expressly designed for Americans. Your speed, it is shown by the Heads-Up Mime. Your angst, it is calmed by the...

Iraqi Dictator shamelessly plugged Uni-Ball ball point pens during the televised interview, holding it in both hands, slowly rotating the pen to highlight it.

Consider the European view of our President. They call him a cowboy, whch is their euphamism for unsophisticated, boorish and dangerous. This opinion was popular among Victorian Europeans in the 19th century when America was seen as a brash upstart nation. But what is a cowboy and why does it upset the Europeans today? Anthropologist E.A. Hoebbel started with the premise that American values were derived from Native-American Indian values and gave a brief description of the Cheyenne Indians to illustrate this point. I have substituted "George W. Bush" for "Cheyenne male" in the following except: Reserved and dignified...George W....

Reuters Shares of Space Shuttle Contractors Fall Monday February 3, 10:43 am ET CHICAGO (Reuters) - Shares of space shuttle contractors Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA - News), Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE:LMT - News) and Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE:ATK - News) fell on Monday, the first trading day after the Columbia shuttle disaster. ADVERTISEMENTAlliant, which builds the solid rocket boosters for the shuttle, tumbled nearly 12 percent, its biggest one-day point loss since its October 1990 debut on the New York Stock Exchange and its biggest percentage loss since January 1993. Credit Suisse First Boston downgraded Alliant stock to "neutral" from "outperform."...

24 October 2002 Fact Sheet: NATO Coalition Contributes to Global War on Terrorism Contributions made by 19 NATO members, Nine Aspirants All members of the NATO Alliance and nine countries aspiring to become members have contributed to the global war on terrorism, according to a fact sheet issued by the State Department on October 24. NATO met in emergency session on September 12, 2001 invoking Article 5 of the Washington Treaty for the first time and stating that "an attack against one is an attack against all," according to the fact sheet. It also states: "Our Allies have delivered on...

Monday, 27 January, 2003, 12:46 GMT Europe and Iraq: Who stands where? Europe is split down the middle on Iraq. As the UK leads a group of countries broadly supportive of military action, Russia, France and Germany are heading an anti-war bloc. BBC News Online explains where key European countries stand. Broadly or fully pro-war countries * UK: The most pro-US European nation. The UK is fully committed to military action - if necessary, without a further UN resolution. Thousands of British troops have already been despatched to the region, although PM Tony Blair continues to stress that war is...