Daily Archives: 17 Oct 00
Carnahan’s Death Reshapes Senate Battle. Immediately, the chances of the Democrats gaining control of the Senate have plummeted. And Lieberman’s maintaining his candidacy for his Connecticut Senate seat while running on the Presidential ticket doesn’t help. Washington Post
“They revolted against their leader, but not against themselves,” says Leon Wiseltier. Milosevic’s overthrow is nothing like the fall of the Communist regimes a decade ago. Kostunica is no Lech Walesa, but rather an “unembarrassed…nationalist who does not see or does not wish to see that the tribal sentiment of his people…has not been the solution but the problem.” The Serbian people were outraged at what Milosevic had done to them, not what he had done to Croatians, to Bosnians, to Kosovars. In other words, “what brought him down were the unhappy consequences for Serbia of his failure in his ugly adventures. And the notion that the opprobrium that was visited upon Milosevic’s Serbia was in any way deserved — that it was the right result of Belgrade’s criminal actions — seems not to have figured prominently in the thinking of the Serbian crowds.” Wiseltier thinks more could have been asked of the Serbian people. The New Republic
Bush Gets a Free Pass From Inquiring Minds. Good to see the news media picking up on Dubya’s prevarication on his military record as well as beginning to police their own unquestioning acceptance of Republican claims that Gore lies and exaggerates. New York Observer
I’ve seen more instances of the word schadenfreude in the last month than in the previous year. Are we taking more pleasure from others’ misfurtunes recently? Here’s the result of a Google Search.
Bold enterprise: “An antimatter-aided space drive might bring deep-space missions within our grasp. Engineers at NASA and
Pennsylvania State University say that by the end of the century, spacecraft could reach the edges of the Solar
System and beyond.
They believe an antimatter drive could lead to a one-year round trip to Jupiter, a five-year trek to the
heliopause–the boundary separating the Solar System from interstellar space–and, in a 50-year trip, the Oort Cloud,
source of the comets.” New Scientist
