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...constant state of upheaval. One day the newspaper ran a statement attributed to Defense Minister Lin Biao: ''Let us not exaggerate the seriousness of this situation. Many people have committed suicide or been killed. But these deaths are fewer than those incurred during the war against Japan or the Civil War, or even during natural disasters.'' These callous words made me sick with apprehension for Meiping's safety. At the beginning of my second winter at the detention house, I again developed a bad cold, which turned to bronchitis. My body shook with spasms of coughing, particularly severe during...
...national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object.'' Jews tend to quote this first part of the declaration without proceeding to the next proviso: ''. . . it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.'' There, again, is the discrepancy: How can justice be done both to Jews and the ''existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine''? In any case, the Palestinians have never considered that it was the business of a colonial power to bestow...
...were selected for the top post, she would oversee a budget of about $3 billion and almost 25,000 employees. A Civil War historian, Faust would be expected to head a university that plans to aggressively step up its commitment to the sciences...
From the rehabilitation camp where he was weaned off drugs and violence (not an easy task; Beah calls the workers there "truly heroic"), the former soldier went to live with an uncle. But the civil war was not over, and his uncle died, so Beah, who had visited New York City in 1996 as a guest of the U.N., eventually was adopted by a woman he met then. He went to school and college. And now, in one of those American-dreamlike turns, he's going on a 10-city book tour sponsored by Starbucks...
...real gaffe ought to reinforce some pre-existing suspicion: the Bush folks don't care about civil liberties, or Chirac is losing his marbles. One TV commentator, trying to explain his ginned-up outrage over Boxer, accused her of thinking that a black woman can't be Secretary of State without children - a form of prejudice so convoluted that no one could actually have it, let alone a liberal congresswoman from northern California...