Results for “Against Gravity”

…hese are hard-to-control and high-risk approaches. A decapitation strategy, we know, did not fare so well in March 2003 against Iraq, and it would probably be harder to pull off against a more deeply institutionalized polity like Iran. As for a “start small” approach, let’s supp...

…successful in having it unsealed. By then, it was too late to try to derail it. They allege, in a federal lawsuit filed against the government, that prosecutors deliberately kept the deal secret — in violation of federal law — to prevent them from appearing at Epstein's sentencin...

…ormi scheme that I w. imprisoned for in 1995. Floffenberg saved 18 years for the scam, but he later thopped the lawsuit against Epstein. In August. nvo of Floffenberg, former inves- tors relandled t. lawsuit ageing Epstein, but the case was dropped in October. Epstein and h, asso...

…er all those Israelis — on left and right, secular and Orthodox, Ashkenazi and Sephardi — who were prepared to stand up against the fanaticism, the violent messianism, of which Yigal Amir was just a part. That was the main reason I wanted Peres to call an early election, an issue...

…les who compete to prove the same better genes that males just proved in the tournaments or beauty contests. The race against parasites speeds up again with Trivers’ fine insight about healthier mothers choosing to dial up the ratio of sons to daughters (“primary sex ratio”), a...

…MES PATTERSON Seckel acquaintances, I kept hearing variations on a scheme Mrs. Pearce Williams believed he perpetrated against her late hus- band, the man Seckel said was his mentor. Seckel took books and promised money, or he took money and promised a book; but somehow, the pro...

…y, bigger than Hungary, bigger than all that,” Bannon told French populists. Bannon showed that he “dominates the mood against the ‘elites,’ the ‘establishment’ and the ‘perverse system’ of greedy corporations and banks, and of course also against the press, which is led around...

…Chokri Belaid was shot dead outside his home in Tunis. The event drew thousands of protestors to the streets, clamoring against the leading Islamist Ennahda party. The events heighten the Islamist-secular divide that has featured in the Tunisian transition and the Arab Spring at...

…tary settlements in civil cases. They are among more than two-dozen underage girls who filed lawsuits or settled claims against Epstein, alleging they were lured to his Palm Beach mansion to give him sexually charged massages and/or sex in exchange for money. The motion filed Mo...

…th the Americans that, unless we were attacked by Saddam, we would stay out of it. To do otherwise was clearly not just against the US-led coalition’s interests. Given the importance of our alliance with Washington, it was against our inrerests as well. Yet with hostilities obvio...

…— before deciding whether actually to do it. A few weeks earlier, Rabin and I had talked through the arguments for and against. The arguments against it were obvious. Yes, in the past we had abducted, or even killed, leaders of groups involved in terror attacks. But we’d never c...

…t sexual promiscuity spread AIDS, Berkowitz tried to tell the world about their findings. But there was a huge backlash against him -- because in those days, the promiscuous bathhouse culture was seen by many gay men as a huge part of identifying as gay and sex-positive... and an...

…nt at all suggest that the victims' rights were violated mukiple times." Kenneth Staff, aggressive advocacy for Epstein against allegations of improper sexual behavior was in stark contr. to the path he took investigating President Bill Clinton as independent counsel for the Whit...

…Recep Tayyip Erdogan as well occasionally makes some correct analysis. Last week, while comparing the uprising in Libya against the Moammar Gadhafi regime and the growing unrest in the Syrian street against the Baathist regime of Bashar al-Assad, the prime minister correctly said...

possibility that machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutio...