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Monday, January 23, 2006 12:00 AM

America's unlikely defender

French provocateur Bernard-Henri Levy denounces anti-Americanism and defends the idealism of the neocons.

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  • Monday, January 23, 2006 05:48 AM

    400 or 500 executions a year?

    I like this guy for all the obvious reasons, but people might believe there are 400 or 500 executions in the US a year, instead of what, 30 or so? And does he believe the figure or was the figure a figure of speech? Not a good way for an "intellectual" (what is that, somebody who reads the Times?) to speak.

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