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...International Red Cross. Most of the major humanitarian agencies are still not present there for political reasons. The U.S. policy directive seems to be that the real help will come only after the Yugoslav President Milosevic is replaced. The logic of this argument is hard to comprehend if one thinks of a humane need to help the refugees and of a political reasoning that an opposition to a government needs certain means to overturn the regime...
...urges Alice to focus on the daily routine, oblivious to the fact that her life is falling apart. There is a particularly striking scene when Howard is about to make love to his wife one night, and though she is unable emotionally to handle it, he still cannot comprehend the problems she is dealing with...
What are we to make of all this in practical terms, philosophical terms, even spiritual terms? How to comprehend an age in which, suddenly, we find ourselves enmeshed in a huge information-processing system, one that seems almost to have a life of its own and to be leading us headlong into a future that we can't clearly see yet can't really avoid...
...endeavors of others seem useless to me. Maybe that's why I'm so sympathetic to consultants and investments bankers--they're no more useless than anybody else. I guess if I wanted to go all out with this particular "-ism," I'd spend all my time trying to comprehend "the void" and despairing at the futility of modern existence. I have a feeling that it wouldn't be long before I said, "Screw this, I want a Porsche. Where's the number for J.P. Morgan...
...still suspect fragment from the Secret Gospel of Mark, may also contain scraps of genuine memory, but lacking complete originals, we have only the shakiest grounds for assessing their reliability. The disappointing fact seems to be that most of the surviving New Testament Apocrypha arose in legitimate attempts to comprehend realities about which the canonical Gospels are mute, and any dogged attempt to read them is apt to leave the reader with one prime reaction--those 2nd and 3rd century Christian editors who decided on the final contents of the New Testament were, above all else, superb literary critics...