Fantasy and farms Nov 6, 2009
She went on to make a number of TV and film appearances including Catch-22, in which she played Nurse Cramer, and Jaws 2. She was variously cast as Collin Wilcox-Horne and Collin Wilcox Paton. (BBC News -- UK)
Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland... Nov 3, 2009
Russia 'simulates' nuclear attack on Poland - Telegraph. Tuesday 03 November 2009. (The Drudge Report)
New Rep’s ‘Mister Roberts’ is a solid drama that needs more waves Sep 17, 2009
To contemporary audiences schooled on M*A*S*H and Catch-22, there is something compellingly counterintuitive in the notion of raising hell so you can get into a war zone. But that is the goal of Lieutenant Doug Roberts (Thomas Piper), stuck aboard the deliciously named USS Reluctant, a Navy cargo ship. (Boston Globe)
The Threatmonger's Handbook May 5, 2009
" True. But the disaster in Af/Pak exploded as a result of US policies POST-9/11: Squeezing the Taliban out of Af and into Pakistan. Bloody Brilliant. Educate yourself: buy Descent into Chaos: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22274 These events dramatically illustrate Ahmed Rashid's central contention in his brilliant and passionate book Descent into Chaos. Throughout the book Rashid emphasizes the degree to which, seven years after September 11, "the US-led war on terrorism has left in its wake... (Slate)
Pimping propaganda Mar 18, 2009
So now, thanks to these two countries together violating every basic rule of common sense (including the first law of thermodynamics, which basically implies that you cannot get something out of nothing), the entire global economic system is starting to resemble the kind of wacko economics practiced by the character Milo Minderbinder in the Joseph Heller book Catch-22. Amit Sharma Cincinnati, OH, USA (Mar 16,'09). (Asia Times Online)
