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...LYNDA MEYERS Arlington, Virginia NR & WMD Neal B. Freeman says after 9/11 "the Bush administration began to rumble about 'regime change,' 'going it alone,' and 'building a democratic Iraq'" ("NB Goes to War,' TAS, June 2006...
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...CORRESPONDENCE cross-pollination was to send regular reports to the French arts press on happenings in America...
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...Soon enough, Scott Joplin, James Scott, Eubie Blake, and others were publishing pieces that were playable by the average musician and approachable for the average listener...
...Although his music anticipated ragtime and evenj azz, its demands were well beyond most parlor musicians...
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...He made Europe realize that America was not the cultural backwater that continentals imagined, and paved the way for every American that came after, from McDowell to Copland to Ella Fitzgerald...
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...Was this not reasonable...
...Whelan's pride in his own scholarship and status got in the way of his rightful goal: to expose a work of fake scholarship, another propaganda tool for the tired leftover leftist academics who still can't get over the fairly boring '70s...
...Sadly, Gottschalk died at the age of 39 in 1869...
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...He had a profound effect on many of his contemporaries, introducing them to the music of a heathen backwater known as The United States...
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...Gottschalk introduced the "Mega Concelt" to America, after Berlioz invented the concept in France...
...Many others were influenced by Gottschalk's unabashedly American music...
...Where does his charge of going it alone come from...
...as a country of "Indians and Mechanics...
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...A more germane question would be, was there enough evidence to act...
...He took Haslam's ad hominem bait...
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...Joliet, Illinois The Missing Link Gregory Man Thornbury did a commendable job of debunking most of the nonsense, pernicious and just silly, in The Da Vinci Code ("The Da Vinci Code Distraction," TAS, July/August 2006...
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...It does not however follow (as he asserts) that all other reasons "miss[ ] the point...
...Thoroughly American, yet rooted in France...
...The premise seems to be that knowing is a necessary element to act...
...Not all arguments supporting or opposing the war are sound, but certainly some are and are worthy of examination...
...Whelan said he wouldn't resort to Haslam-style "literary pirouettes" in his reply...
...The prewar CIA argument that a secular Saddam would never ally himself with a fundamentalist al Qaeda has been proven wrong...
...That level of understanding is possible only because of the behind-the-scenes conversations he has with officials at the highest levels of government and commerce...
...And are they not self-evidently relevant...
...Gottschalk returned to America in 1859, against the advice of Berlioz, who characterized the U.S...
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...There he met all the luminaries of 19th-century European musical and high society, and became good friends with George Bizet, Hector Berlioz, and Camille Saint-SaChs, among others...
...I am sure Mr...
...It detracts from this powerful point for Whelan to call Kissinger's books "excruciatingly relevant...
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...Yet another inconsistency in Mr...
...MICHAEL SALL Villanova, Pennsylvania Propertied Values I commend you for focusing on the issue of legal empowerment and the outstanding work of Hernando de Soto ("Why Isn't the Whole World Developed...
...For example, Haslam failed to cite Kissinger's books, in a book largely about Kissinger...
...Whelan's review of Haslam's book delivered many effective blows to Haslam's work, e.g., the shoddy research Haslam did...
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...JOSEPH KIMERLING Birmingham, Alabama 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBs 2006...
...6 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR SEPTEMBER 2006 CORRESPONDENCE The author is probably correct when he says that WIVID were the only reason that permitted the President to go into Iraq...
...If regime change was a reasonable policy, was it not also reasonable that the most desirable change would be to a democratic Iraq...
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