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...fields. Soldiers have set up checkpoints on the roads, and while they allow local traffic in and out, they confiscate all but the smallest quantities of food and fuel. At the town of Kifri, 96 miles north of Baghdad, in outposts separated by a tense 500 yards., Iraqi troops confront bearded peshmerga guerrillas in balloon trousers and tightly wrapped turbans. "We have been suffering from two blockades," says Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the two leading political groups. "First the U.N. embargo directed at all of Iraq, and second the blockade Saddam is directing...
...says that most ethical issues the committee must confront have come up before in other biological research...
...increased by the way Mantegna reduces Holofernes to two anatomical fragments: his head, which the avenging Jewess is placing in a bag, and the sole of his foot, which sticks up above the horizon of the bed end. Mantegna had a liking for feet -- the same dead soles confront your eye in the most famous of his images, The Lamentation over the Dead Christ. His willingness to emphasize single parts of the body in this weirdly iconic way is a reminder that, like any other artist of the time, he experienced antiquity mainly in fragments: broken parts and details...
Acursory glance through the "lifebeat" sections of American newspapers reveals a surprisingly large number of advice columns. "Dear Abby." "Dear Dotti." "Ann Landers." "Miss Manners." "Ask Beth." "Ask the Countess." These columns claim they confront the major and minor issues that plague the reading public. Advice has become a staple of the modern newspaper; the Boston Herald, after all, fills a whole tabloid page each day with lurid tales of cheating spouses, rude dinner guests and meddling mothers...
...Given our continuous denial of the presence of racism and anti-Semitism in our society, I believe it is crucial to permit the Jeffries and David Dukes of this world to openly express their views--and in so doing, confront ourselves with the painful reality of the bigotry present among us and the need for continuous work to combat...