Copyright 2012 Judith Miller Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:40:01 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Judith Miller :: Writings http://www.judithmiller.com judymillerfreespeech@yahoo.com (Judith Miller) webmaster@pundicity.com en-us http://www.judithmiller.com/11096/herzliya-diary Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Feb. 2, 2012: Stanley Fischer, the governor of Israel's Central Bank, delivered a harsh message yesterday to Israel's ultra-Orthodox and Arab citizens: Stop having so many children and get to work. OK, Israel's banker-in-chief didn't put it quite that... http://www.judithmiller.com/11095/sultan-qaboos-bin-said-oman Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Oman's ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, a longtime, discreet intermediary with Iran, says that Iran is seriously seeking a way out of American-led sanctions over its nuclear program and urges the United States to re-engage the regime on a variety of... http://www.judithmiller.com/11041/nypd-report Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST Less is more. That was the message that New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly gave the Police Foundation Tuesday morning as he offered an upbeat report on the department's accomplishments and innovations over the past year. In a speech billed as his... http://www.judithmiller.com/11015/syria-intervention Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST How many people must die in a civil conflict before President Obama decides that American intervention is warranted? Syria is our most urgent test case. While President Obama has demanded that President Bashar Assad relinquish power and has denounced his... http://www.judithmiller.com/11014/war-horse Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:00:00 EST How many horses does it take to make a War Horse? Film icon Steven Spielberg reportedly used 14 different horses to portray Joey, the main character of the film version of Michael Morpurgo's 1982 children's novel about the bond between a horse and the... http://www.judithmiller.com/10863/hearts-and-minds Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST Two plays—Blood and Gifts, a drama about the origins of America's war in Afghanistan, now at Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theater, and Captors, which examines the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann and which ran at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston... http://www.judithmiller.com/10829/reading-the-mullahs-minds Tue, 6 Dec 2011 09:00:00 EST Could Iran's mullahs be losing their grip? It's a question worth exploring, given Tehran's increasingly aggressive, erratic behavior. Some veteran Iran analysts have long predicted the regime's collapse, or possibly its transformation into a more... http://www.judithmiller.com/10784/egypt-election-economic-disaster Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST Turnout in Egypt was high and largely peaceful on Monday for the launch of the world's most needlessly complicated election system. While voting will continue until next March and the results won't be certain for weeks or even months, the Muslim... http://www.judithmiller.com/10776/jose-pimentel-nypd-fbi Sat, 26 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST Inspire magazine—the now-defunct al Qaeda glossy published for English-speaking militant Muslims—didn't send out rejection letters. So we'll probably never know why it ignored a 20-page ode to Osama bin Laden submitted by an aspiring young writer in New... http://www.judithmiller.com/10757/republican-party-debate Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST The Republican presidential debate Tuesday on national security and foreign policy was the most riveting session yet. It highlighted not only key differences among the eight presidential contenders over how best to counter threats to the United States,... http://www.judithmiller.com/10773/jose-pimentel-arrest Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST Usama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki may be dead, but their message continues to inspire terror. The arrest of Jose Pimentel, a 27-year old Dominican-born American citizen charged with plotting to blow up police cars, post offices, and U.S. soldiers... http://www.judithmiller.com/10671/sarkozy-obama-anti-netanyahu Tue, 8 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST Open mic. Open mouth. Insert foot. It seems that politicians never learn: wearing a microphone is like carrying a loaded weapon. You can never be sure when it will go off, or in this case, go live. The French government is deeply "chagrined" – now we... http://www.judithmiller.com/10661/san-francisco-pension-crisis Mon, 7 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST A day before Halloween, glorious San Francisco weather brought hundreds of participants to "Pet Pride Day" at Golden Gate Park. As drums pounded and electrified folk tunes blared, children and parents, many in costume, paraded before a reviewing stand... http://www.judithmiller.com/10655/us-israel-relationship Sun, 6 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST It has long been gospel (appropriately enough) in the State Department and American academic circles that the United States has paid a terrible price for its relationship with Israel. But for Israel, the argument goes, America would be popular in Arab... http://www.judithmiller.com/10626/haunted Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:00:00 EST Bernie Madoff never met Ivar Kreuger, the wealthy Swedish financier, industrialist, and con man upon whom Terence Rattigan's slender melodrama, Man and Boy, is based. Kreuger committed suicide in 1932 when his financial empire collapsed, taking many...