Philip Roth is a gifted Jewish-American writer whose novels have entertained and educated an American and international reading public for four decades. Paul Berman is a former New Lefty and anarchist-oriented intellectual who eventually became a MacArthur Fellowship winner, a pundit, a talking head, an interpreter of a generation that wanted to be interpreted.

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One can easily be connected to the other. The headline in The Chicago Sun Times read: "Looking for WMD?" That’s easy enough, there are eight million chemical weapons stockpiled. They were not found in Iraq, but they are being warehoused in igloo-like concrete structures in the state of Oregon, USA.

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WASHINGTON has urged Israel to show "restraint" in its rampage through the Gaza Strip, but it does nothing to put real pressure on its regional surrogate. In fact, its restraint calls simply emphasise hypocrisy of the White House, since US occupation forces in Iraq are engaged in a terrorist bloodbath.

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The Bush Administration urged the members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to approve an October 31 deadline on Iran for compliance or face sanctions at the UN Security Council. Bush lost that vote. Had the motion passed, that would have started the countdown to an Israel-Iran war just days before the November 2nd elections.

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New voters are swelling the rolls and threatening to upset the assumptions of corporate pundits and polling organizations. Although Republicans are vigorously signing up white voters in the suburbs and exurbs, it appears the GOP is being out-organized by Democrat-led drives in Black and Brown precincts across the nation.

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When Dick Cheney confessed to Gwen Ifill of PBS, the moderator of last night’s vice presidential debate, that he did not know anything about the struggles faced by African American women with AIDS, his admission spoke directly to one of the defining characteristics of the Bush administration: the decided lack of interest in or concern for the difficulties faced by the most oppressed, most troubled sections of the US population.

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Daniel A. Bell and Hahm Chaibong have edited a book called Confucianism for the Modern World (Cambridge, 2003). In their introduction the editors discuss the contemporary relevance of the Confucian tradition (the purpose of the book). The question is – is Confucianism a dead tradition or is it meaningful for the contemporary world?

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Instead of stimulating the economy as intended, Bush’s tax policy – largely huge tax cuts for the upper income brackets – has had a long-term detrimental impact on the recovery after the 2001 recession. The primary focus of the administration, tax cuts, has proven to be both an inefficient method of economic stimulus and may have put the brakes on a broader recovery.

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It's now time to roll up our sleeves -- each and every one of us -- and get to work. There will be nearly 10 million of you who will read this letter either on my list or on my site. An army of ten million cannot be defeated! The time for hitting the snooze button has passed, voter registration deadlines start Monday and we only get one shot at this!!!

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The outcome of the 2004 presidential election will determine the viability and the direction of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency charged with protecting workers’ rights and conducting elections for union representation. The five-member NLRB is now controlled by Bush appointees.

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