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...many-headed hydra of myth: slice off a head, others grow in its place. Worse, the Saudi government may be facing two hydras. The four men executed in the first bombing were members of the Sunni Muslim majority of the country. The 40 in custody for the Dhahran attack belong to the kingdom's Shi'ite minority. And the Shi'ite suspects bring with them the specter of a greater menace--Iran, the center of Shi'ism that lies about 160 miles across the gulf. Indeed, the Saudis believe Tehran is the true perpetrator of the Dhahran incident. They have...
...ineffectual, and Marks is suspicious and fearful. She tries to fit fragments of her childhood together but fails, because (in the anguished words that Atwood gives her) her memory is "like a plate that's been broken. There are always some pieces that would seem to belong to another plate altogether, and then there are the empty spaces, where you cannot fit anything...
What does it mean when soldiers start treating their comrades-in-arms as if they were members of an enemy force? For one thing, and this is the bright side, it means we should be hearing a lot less of the sanctimonious argument that women don't belong in the military because they occupy a "protected" category. Not that that argument was ever anything more than patriarchal propaganda. When the Crusaders entered Jerusalem, for example, they slaughtered every resident--man, woman, child and pet--and waded, triumphantly, in the knee-deep blood. Nor have civilian women ever been entirely safe...
City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 echoed Born, saying that "certain parcels like 1008 Mass. Ave. should belong to the city...
...Electric Minds is one-stop shopping for netniks who just like to commune--especially about the impact of technology on life. A "virtual community center" provides pointers to every online klatsch in cyberspace, from The Club for First Wives to alt.shoes.lesbians. If you can't find community here, you belong in a cave, I guess...