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Cantwell populates the Conde Nast hothouses with a sharp sense of the pretensions by which publishing people define their territory. There was the society editor who was "a friend to the rich, a brute to her researcher"; the entertainment editor who sat behind an "enormous mahogany desk, taking phone calls from Marlene Dietrich and Truman Capote"; the editor in chief who addressed long letters to the staff with "Dearly Beloved Family...
...rough stuff fool you--rugby is very much a thinking man's game. Although tackling without pads might make you think that the brute force of a Cortez Kennedy rules the sport, the smarts and athleticism of the Joe Montanas are really more dominant...
...facing the tragedies of Bosnia and Somalia, which may be part of the reason he felt tempted by the apparently more manageable case of Haiti. But if a President asks American soldiers to go in, what is needed to answer such evils is absolute clarity and, usually, a brute counterforce. Evil is not impressed for very long by those plates spinning on nose and chin...
...place where that can be done quickly, with worldwide backing and minimal loss of life. The U.S. should indeed promote democracy among its neighbors, reply the critics, but by political, diplomatic and economic pressure, not military force. Washington has no divine commission to impose democracy on its neighbors by brute strength...
These policy divergences mirror real differences between the countries that, politically at least, outweigh their equally real similarities. The Haitian military clique that seized power in 1991 is an outlaw regime, scorned by nearly all other nations, that sustains its power over a terrorized populace by brute force. Yet its army is a rabble that could be swept aside by an American invasion force in a matter of days, if not hours. Cuba's communist government, by contrast, has survived 35 years of U.S. hostility and the collapse of its longtime patron, the Soviet Union. Despite growing anger and privation...