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...also something shocking about this book, though not in a titillating way. The intimate tone in which Wurtzel narrates sordid detail after humiliating incident after debasing sexual encounter is almost obscenely exhibitionistic, even for our culture of confession, especially since it serves no purpose other than alternately to bore us and make us squirm. Perhaps it's meant to be inspirational--Wurtzel did a lot of crazy stuff, but she pulled through and she's not ashamed--but instead it's pathetic. Most of us will have to swallow a lot of Prozac before we're able to swallow this...
...public was surprised by Friday's overture, policymakers were not. The junta, while publicly professing defiance, had been putting out feelers about leaving for at least two months. All their offers bore conditions unacceptable to the U.S.: that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide not be allowed back, that Jonnaissant, Cedras' 80-year-old puppet president, stay in office, that only one or two of the Cedras-Biamby-Francois trio leave...
...Trust had gone out of the land," writes Irish novelist Edna O'Brien, "and brother no longer gasped at the bloodshed of brother." For the past 25 years, since the "troubles" began in the North, sectarian killings bore bloody testimony to the truth of that verdict. Now, following months of secret negotiations, there appears a glimmer of hope that peace...
That's right, but not because Starr is incapable of conducting a fair inquiry. His partisan political activities are small-bore. His integrity and honesty have never been seriously questioned. When even a dues-paying liberal like the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union says, "I'd rather have Starr investigate me than almost anyone I can think of," the case for bias is virtually closed...
...unlike the K'i-lin. It's been the greatest thing to hit America since the invasion of the Beatles. It's the worst thing to come to America since the onslaught of the killer bees. It is subtle, riveting drama. It is a repetitive, soporific bore. One scribe based in Washington has even described it as a metaphor for the Clinton health-care plan: all process, no results. Makes you wonder what he'd write the first time he saw a giraffe...