Request of the Week
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Hi Mark,
As you mentioned on The Corner, even Thomas Friedman in The New York Times is now changing his story on Bush and Iraq after their recent elections. You wrote a "Happy Warrior" column at the time of Abu Ghraib that I can't find on the web but which...
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Ten Years Ago
Saturday, 06 March 2010
It's Oscar Night at SteynOnline. Earlier this week we looked at nominees such as Quentin Tarantino and Helen Mirren, and at the eponymous statuette himself. In my days at the Speccie, I would often write up the ceremony itself. Here's how things looked on Oscar Night a decade back:
Credit where it's due. The trick...
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Five Years Ago
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
Continuing SteynOnline's annual Oscar Week festivities - if that's the word - here's a look back to the Academy Awards of 2005:
I wonder which Jude Law took more offence at on Oscar night: Chris Rock’s affable riff in his opening monologue — 'Whassup with this Jude Law guy? It’s...
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Topical Take
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
We're looking at the world through luge-bottomed glasses at SteynOnline with some Winter Olympic memories. Click here for "Cold War On Ice". Meanwhile, this Sunday Telegraph column from 2002 marks the surprise victory of the British curlers at the Utah games:
By anybody's standards, these Winter Olympics have been a...
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Seasons of Steyn
Saturday, 13 February 2010
Happy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine's Day, a day on which we anglophones struggle under one of the worst burdens in a world which has otherwise blessed us: the word "love." The French for "love" is amour, which rhymes with dozens of other useful words - toujours (always), jour (day), carrefour (crossroads),...
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One Year Ago
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
I've written about the Geert Wilders trial in the current issue of Maclean's in Canada, but in fact the wheels of what passes for Dutch justice have been turning for a year now. This column is from National Review:
The other day I found myself wondering when the conversion rate...
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