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...this would accomplish. Afghanistan already knows that America’s military might far exceeds its own. It is already banking on the hope that America couldn’t possibly do anything worse to the country than has already been done. It is also hoping that its feebleness, abject misery and pleading will spare it more damage. Afghanistan knew that harboring bin Laden would earn them the wrath of America, but figured that the 2,000 or 3,000 men that bin Laden could supply to protect them from the immediate threat of opposition invasion was worth...
Vanzant does follow the Oprah recipe: a la carte spirituality, advice and above all, confession. It is an understatement to say that Vanzant does not shy away from talking about her difficult early life. And as Oprah has taught us, if not with quite so abject a life story, such been-there testimony is essential to bonding with the talk audience (primarily women 18 to 49). "My life is who I am; it's where I come from," says Vanzant. "I don't know what I'd be doing had I not been born in a taxicab or neglected...
...protecting the dwindling herds in forest reserves, and selling the ivory for lucrative sums to traders. Utilizing the same techniques and connections, he recruited villagers to illegally fell sandalwood trees, which he then smuggled to northern Indian factories that produce oil for perfumeries abroad. Veerappan has repeatedly reduced to abject helplessness the authorities of three different state governments in southern India that have tried to stop...
Gone, too, is the easy crutch of achievement in evaluating these choices. Everyone here has succeeded at something and failed at something, so we lack the instant validation of being First Place Everything, or the equally clear feedback of abject failure...
Japanese belligerence, which actually started much earlier than World War II and was initially applauded in the West, especially when the Russians were among its early victims, was not unrelated to the defensive mimicry. There was something humiliating about the pandering to foreign opinion and the abject way in which native traditions were discarded as old junk. A nativist reaction was bound to come. It always does. In fact, it was already beginning during those early years of intense imitation...