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[Ivanjanssens.be] The Flemish Beerdrinker. Ivan's weblog.: The oddity of this rests in the magazine’s stated criterion for a public intellectual: "We are stressing current contributions — by which we mean the past five to ten years." Readers thus voted for Professor Hobsbawm not for his scholarly works of 19th-century history, but for his serial attempts in the past decade to exculpate a lifetime’s commitment to the Communist Party of Great Britain.(...) Prospect’s "five intellectuals" are to be accorded dinner with a Cabinet minister and a newspaper editor, with the conversation recorded for the magazine. If Hobsbawm’s interlocutors have any gumption, they will refuse to sit with him.

[Www-personal.umich.edu] Saturday: This article makes the point that the recent bizarre actions of the Bushies, especially Cheney's warnings that another terrorist attack is certain, are both inspired by fear and intended to increase fear. As with so much of what they do, it reminds me of Orwell's 1984, where rocket bombs hit various parts of London every day or two, apparently random, supposedly sent by the current enemy, although no one really knows where they come from.

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