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...World War II, most buildings in central Berlin were destroyed. Postwar planners, in a kind of survivors' frenzy, pulled down much of what remained intact, finishing with bulldozers and wrecking balls what the bombs had begun. They clung to their modernist faith, bedazzled by the idea of starting anew. The war had given their ahistorical impulse -- Erase the past! -- maniacal urgency. The denuded cityscape was regarded in the '40s and '50s as the war's silver lining, a great opportunity. New buildings would be high-rise, set far apart and back from the streets. Density would be low. Technocrats would...
...ratifying a decision made in the primaries. Says Political Consultant David Garth: "We might go to the convention without a known outcome for the first time in many years." For all the Democrats, that is only one of the tantalizing uncertainties to mull over as the campaign starts anew...
...public man holds a terrible fascination. One watches transfixed, yet ashamed, as personal dignity gives way to political desperation and hard-won respect is replaced by ribald laughter. It is an ugly spectacle, part Greek tragedy and part game-show television. Character becomes fate as hubris is defined anew. Yet the rituals of humiliation are straight Marshall McLuhan; the medium is the message as the cornered politician endures the prescribed sequence of televised statements, beginning with a tight-lipped acknowledgment of errors in judgment and ending with defiant surrender. So the political process is purified yet again, another heretic...
Americans are also sentimental, some would say gullible. Year after year, they enter into a compact with their leaders -- and trust them. Yet in the past two decades, that trust has often been betrayed; each time, Americans are disappointed and disillusioned anew. Last week, as a general turned businessman discussed lucrative foreign intrigues and the evening news flashed pictures of a presidential candidate on a yacht called Monkey Business, it was easy to feel duped, hard not to feel cynical...
Indeed, the bombings could provoke Pakistan to refuse to return to the talks, which are being held in Geneva. Last Thursday, Afghan jets struck anew at Teri Mangal, one of the border villages hit just three days earlier. This time five Afghan refugees were killed, and eight others injured. The attack seemed to mock the angry diplomatic note of protest issued just one day earlier by the Pakistani government. It demanded that the regime in Kabul "desist from these barbarous and wanton attacks on defenseless civilians...