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...life? The premise is that America's sacred statuary memory belongs to things that happened on native grounds. An odor of anti-Semitism sometimes gusts around these dinner tables, the half- stated thought being: It's Jews imposing, trying to push into the American club of myth with their alien memories. Further: Do we have to go through all this again, the hand-wringing, the Holocaust...
...these things happen. The Holocaust is a densely compacted drama of warning that needs to be remembered repeatedly. In the world at the end of the 20th century, geography matters less; borders are porous, ideas go at the speed of light. A European apocalypse is not alien to America. The lessons are here -- played out to an extreme that has become the world standard of evil, a sort of baseline...
...Giardi (2), Tedrow, BPs Harvard 2, BU 1. Len Harvard 10, BU 11, 20s Hill, Giardi, Madden, Donato. 3B: None. HR: Morgan, SSt Hill, Morgan, Donste, Auflero OSt None. Harvard IP N BR BS SO Alien, W (2-0) 9 10 1 1 2 8 BU IP N BR BS SO Goldstein, L (1-5) 0.2 6 8 5 0 0 Anselmo 3.1 5 2 2 1 1 Brown 3 4 3 3 1 0 Cohen 0 0 0 0 1 0 Millstein...
...largely locked in the ideologies of their time. Emily considers herself a liberal even as she casually spews racist rhetoric; the proud slave Cambridge despises his African birthplace and views his own unconverted wife as a degenerate. Phillips' almost brutal insistence on historical accuracy renders these characters at once alien and sympathetic. It is this combination which makes Cambridge so disturbing and powerful...
Abohalima seemed to fit that profile. Having come to the United States via Germany and attained permanent alien status as a "farmworker" under a 1986 immigration law, the 6-ft. 4-in., 240-lb. redhead had in reality toiled as a cabbie -- a crooked one, his former boss suggested. He journeyed to Afghanistan in the late '80s to fight as a member of the Islamic, antigovernment mujahedin. More to the point, he was close to Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the fiery blind Muslim preacher whose fundamentalist sermons may have inspired the alleged bombers. Abohalima acted as the sheik's driver...