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Whether a butterfly's wing beat can cause??a tornado is still a central debate of chaos theory. But it is now proven that drawings first published more than four months ago in Denmark have seeded outrage among Muslims from Gaza to Jakarta and embittered believers making their lives in Europe. An editor's decision--call it feisty or cavalier--to ask Danish cartoonists to depict the Prophet Muhammad has provoked a volcanic reaction, from a Muslim boycott of Danish goods to the torching of two European embassies in Damascus to death threats and lawsuits against newspapers, and even...
Sadly enough, there seems to be no shortage of torturers; dictatorial regimes always manage to find enough people who ?convinced of the righteousness of their cause???will maim or murder under orders from an absolute authority. The torture subculture provides these people with a kind of identity. It is also a dramatic and telling proof of what Historian and Social Critic Hannah Arendt called "the banality of evil." The most inhumane cruelty of man to man can become routine if it is surrounded and buffered by an apparatus of normality...
...What the hell," he notes, "even Harold Stassen had a bigger voice than I did simply because he was a candidate. You have to be a candidate to be heard." He adds: "I'll be any kind of candidate for anything to carry this cause???or I'll be no candidate, if that's the best way to get the Republican Party back into the mainstream of American life...
...reputed to be so well posted on its problems that the august General Board would welcome him as a competent colleague. He hobnobs regularly with real admirals, talks their "shop." Steaming back & forth between his Manhattan home and his Washington headquarters, he battles ceaselessly for his patriotic Cause???a Navy second to none. Presidents may come and Presidents may go but he is always there to care for the Navy. Last week his vociferousness got him into a front-page war with the White House over fundamental U. S. naval policy...
...Rintelen did great damage to the German cause???there is no doubt about it! He went to America on a purely economic mission, but preferred to foment strikes?and spent a great deal of money doing so. The rest of the money von Rintelen took with him was taken from him by David Lamar, known as 'the Wolf of Wall Street,* who emptied his pockets in short order. Bombs were manufactured and placed on allied ships, but only one ever exploded as far as is known...