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Monthly Archives: September 2007
raid on the sun
Posted by on September 3, 2007
This weekend I finished reading Raid on the Sun: Inside Israel’s Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb by Rodger W. Claire. It is the inside story of a secret Israeli mission that in 1981 took down Saddam’s first, biggest (and, as it would turn out, most successful) nuclear weapons project by destroying the Osirak [...]
four movies in four minutes
Posted by on September 2, 2007
Over the last few weeks I’ve been catching up with some movies that looked interesting back when they came out in theaters but that I didn’t have time to go see at that point. Here’s the one-minute summary of each. There isn’t much to spoil, but if you’re sensitive to knowing, er, “plot” details, well, [...]
sure…
Posted by on September 2, 2007
From an article in the New York Times: “Ahmed Zayat and Earle Mack hope that naming a racehorse after the famous Jewish philosopher Maimonides will spread a message of peace.” Because that’s what peace is really about.
