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Norah Vincent

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 20, 1968

There is no bargaining with Hussein, no appealing to his better nature even on domestic issues. This is hardly surprising because he is a confessed admirer and epigone of Josef Stalin.

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The next time someone tells you that Shakespeare is irrelevant, tell him that the Bard wrote his greatest play about George W. Bush 350 years before our incumbent president was even born. Oh yeah, you're thinking. Which one? 'Much Ado About Nothing?' 'The Comedy of Errors?' Nah. Actually, it's 'Hamlet.'

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We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is, but there's a little more to it than that.

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There is some truth to the claim that trade publishing has become a harried, assembly-line operation with its head on the block.

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Publishers and writers are desperate to cash in on the latest craze, be it baseball, the founding fathers or jihad. Their livelihoods depend on it.

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This may be one of the real tragedies of free market capitalism gone awry. The quality of our intellectual life is declining in the throes of profit and loss, and the proof is in the process.

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The truth does exist somewhere out there, but we are incapable of perceiving it except from our own inherently skewed points of view.

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American news organizations are superior because, unlike so many other government-controlled and censored presses from China to much of the Arab world, they tell the truth - or so its members like to think. They get very upset when someone suggests otherwise.

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Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, scourge of liberals everywhere, may be hopelessly partisan, but he's never claimed to be anything else. He has an agenda, and he's honest about it. The New York Times is no less wildly partisan and has no less of an agenda, yet it presents itself as the tame word of God. And therein lies the real problem.

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Students can publish their views in college newspapers. They can print pamphlets and hand them out at student unions or even on campus walkways. They need not deface college property.

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Cultivating individualism is the way to bring about true multiculturalism, because healthy individuals cannot be broken down into their component parts, their jingoistic prides and jaundiced world views, whether of ethnicity, sex or sexuality.

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Ideas are inflammable. This doesn't mean, of course, that they shouldn't be expressed freely.

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Diversity, in the true sense of the word, is good. No one committed to liberty and equal opportunity disputes that. Every fair-minded person wants America to live up to its promises. To be inclusive. To be sex-, class-, color-, race-and lifestyle-blind.

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The twin causes Bin Laden invokes are Islam and Arab self-determination, and armies rise to serve him. No need to convert or dogmatize. Believers are ready-made.

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Of course, Al Qaeda has no more to do with Islam than Jim Jones had to do with Christianity. And it is no more a bona fide terrorist organization than was Charles Manson's family.

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Because Al Qaeda says it hates the United States, we mistakenly have come to believe that it represents widespread Arab and Muslim dislike for our freedom-loving way of life.

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There should be no ideas that cannot be expressed.

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There are a lot of women out there who really want a manly man, and they want his stoicism.

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I have always lived as my truest self somewhere on the boundary between masculine and feminine.

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To me, woman-to-woman introductions often seem fake and cold, full of limp gentility.

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