I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogged down so much with all of that, with domestic stories and relationships and a woman dealing with the loss of her husband. Miguel Syjuco Read Quote
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality. D. H. Lawrence Read Quote
The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It’s always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage. Stella Young Read Quote
Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible. Stephen Kinzer Read Quote
There was a golden era in film-making in Hollywood back in the 1970s, and although there is some great independent film-making in America, it’s actually very hard to get independent films made in the United States. It’s much more feasible from Europe. Lenny Abrahamson Read Quote
Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants. Barton Gellman Read Quote
