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Less than one year ago, Herbert Haft and his family embodied the American business principle that if you get out from behind the counter, keep your elbows sharp and put your family to work, you can become a very rich clan. But lo, the destruction when that same ferocious solidarity and energy turn mean and inward...
...last half-century has been the dramatic expansion in personal freedom and personal mobility, individual rights, the reorienting of culture around individuals. We obviously value that. But like all human gains, it has been purchased at a price. Most people faced with greater freedom from family, law, village, clan, have used it for good purposes -- artistic expression, economic entrepreneurship, self-expression -- but a small fraction of people have used it for bad purposes. So just as we have had an artistic and economic explosion, we have had a crime explosion. I think the two are indissolubly entwined. When that prosperity...
...growing number of critics are suggesting that the U.N. has gone off course in hunting Aidid, damaging its credibility as a neutral peacemaker. Howe insists that the U.N. remains impartial. "We oppose no clan, subclan or party," he says. "We must, however, defend ourselves and the people of Somalia against terrorist attacks and take the necessary measures to prevent such attacks." Howe is supported by the Pakistanis and others, who agree that Aidid must be removed from the scene if national reconciliation is to be achieved. That determination is shared at the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Les Aspin says...
...patriarch of a clan that included a dragon named Spot and a vampire grandfather, Gwynne was the star of a series widely regarded to be a lighter version of "The Addams Family," which ran at the same time...
...country nourished on oral tradition and lives the spartan life of a nomad. In the 1950s he served in the Italian colonial police force and as a general in Siad Barre's army in the war with Ethiopia. But as a tribal rival of Siad Barre's Darod clan family, he was never fully trusted and was imprisoned without trial for six years in the early 1970s. Later, Siad Barre appointed him envoy to New Delhi to get him out of the country. In 1991 he finally joined in the overthrow of Siad Barre. Soon, though, he fell out with...