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TIME's Halevy managed to get past the Israeli guards and observe the shooting and explosions at first hand. Reports he: "I finally got close enough to the bus to see at least five bodies burning inside. The rear windows were blasted out and the barrel of a machine-gun was poking out. A child aged seven or eight was lying on the asphalt, a bullet hole in its head. Three women in a nearby ditch screamed for help. I helped them limp to waiting ambulances. A young couple emerged from the ditch screaming, 'We had two children...
...John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and she leavens her familiar narrative with gritty bits of lore from the backwaters of quarter-horse racing. She accurately re-creates the arduous rituals of training, the sweaty romance of jockeying and the cracker-barrel humor of the eccentrics who build their entire lives around long shots...
Carter's only serious crime, then, is Optimism in the first degree. Despite his lust for Washington's power, he was an outsider in the true sense of the world. Oblivious to elitist protocol and disdainful of pork-barrel politics, he innocently seemed to believe that solving the nation's problems was more important to Congressmen than their re-election worries, debts to special interests and status in the Capital Hill Club. He was wrong. The new breed of young, educated, "professional" Congressmen have gained the appearance of competence (due mostly to their staff's), but they are practically incapable...
King Charles, a big barrel of a king and self-acclaimed "giant in the bedroom," snorts that his son need not do anything--Pippin is much too intelligent to be a soldier. "But Louis is such a good boy," snickers Fastrada, "so considerate and brave...
...Roman Catholic bastions of Bavaria, the riotous midwinter weeks of Fasching (from the German phrase "to pour from a barrel") serve roughly the same functions as carnival elsewhere in the Christian world. It is a season of merrymaking, mischiefing and fair-maidening begun by medieval Catholics who wanted to say a hearty "farewell to the flesh" (carne vale) before starting the Lenten regimen of fasting and penance on Ash Wednesday. In Munich, the capital of Fasching, the farewell involves a series of masquerades, formal balls and street parades, which lead to, among other effects, an increase in illegitimate births every...