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These changes cannot be underestimated. After 70 years of benign neglect by the United States, it only makes sense that Mexico (its third largest trading partner) be involved in a deal which would ultimately be overwhelmingly beneficial. An alliance of this kind is also crucial in countering the emerging regional dynamos of the European Community as well as similar Asian groups...
...dolphins have a better attitude toward their schooling than many children. When correct, they squeak excitedly as they race back to the trainer. When wrong, they sag noticeably and look about as depressed as it is possible for these benign creatures to look. Herman notes that they are not above resorting to tricks familiar to every student, such as rushing over to another object after choosing the wrong one, or positioning themselves at some ambiguous midpoint between two choices with the apparent hope that the trainer will say "Right!" On occasion, when wrong, they will take their chagrin...
...horrors of World War II. Neo-fascist skinheads savage Bernard when he visits Berlin to see the Wall come down. The novel addresses the depths of hatred and spite to which the world often descends. On a personal scale, the narrator himself is both protected by a benign intuition, which saves him from a scorpion's bite, and seized by loathing so intense that he quietly breaks a stranger's nose. In just such an unassuming manner, McEwan questions the forces that govern our lives. Can we really explain the twisted landscape of human history with the neat, scientific principles...
...skeptics doubt there can be any benign intervention, at least one that is also effective. Some supplies dropped at night from that high are going to fall outside target areas. Analysts are worried that Serbs may use the air drops as an excuse for again blockading truck convoys that lately have been getting through to some besieged towns in eastern Bosnia. Worst of all, there is a widespread fear that the U.S. will be pulled into deeper involvement in the Bosnian bloodbath. Serbs, or Muslims eager for American intervention, might shoot down a cargo plane, triggering a military response...
Rothenberg's huge-scale images are powerful and benign...