The Iraqi dissident Kanan Makiya, who has been working with the State Department on Iraq's "transition," has started writing a "war diary" for one of the weeklies. In one entry, he reports that "there are hundreds—if not more—of Iraqis in America, Britain, and the rest of the diaspora who are quitting their jobs and boarding …
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Edward Said CRASSHes
Edward Said, celebrity professor and advocate for Palestine, has just ended a stretch at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities—acronym CRASSH—at Cambridge University in England. Between his lectures on "The Example of Auerbach's Mimesis" and "Return to Philology" (serious people never left it), Said huddled in his rooms to settle …
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