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Paul Wachter
Increasingly the literary genre of the memoir has come to be associated with the second-rate politician and fourth-rate celebrity In a self-obsessed confessional world the memoir mdash and its Internet derivative the blog mdash has tweaked Descartes rsquo famous maxim I write therefore I am
Arts & CultureBooks
Paul Wachter
In the wake of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean as the death toll quickly climbed into the tens of thousands many religious leaders and op-ed pundits focused on a single question Where was God For nonbelievers the catastrophe while tragic was easily explainable Science tells us that a violent
Paul Wachter
Even when the streets of downtown Beirut were the exclusive preserve of those demanding a Syrian withdrawal, I was never optimistic about Lebanon’s so-called Cedar Revolutionbut hopeful, yes. Last month’s assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a Sunni, gave the pre