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...modern residence north of the city to celebrate his country's "victory" in the 1973 war. It was hardly a popular party, understandably, and not one Israeli Cabinet minister was present, but the ambience was congenial as the guests?a sprinkling of ambassadors, some journalists, a handful of academics???sipped drinks on the patio. Then U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis arrived and took Mortada away from the reception line...
...possible? Ignorant, bedraggled, illiterate punks! Our institutions are tremendously vulnerable. What are we afraid of? Of the Government? Of the police? Of Congress? No, for God's sake, we're afraid of the individual, of the beast masquerading as man." Some less volcanic thinkers?among them many liberals and academics???have also expressed dismay. All institutions are fallible, says Columbia University's Jacques Barzun, and unending criticism can bring down the entire structure of society...
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