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...seek mastery--by drawing our own lines to connect what we find beautiful--we alter our ways of being in the world to better communicate this allegiance: our new understanding of what gravity means, of how the light falls. We borrow words and gestures and silences to craft the images and the context that will allow us to come into this beauty, that will bring us into the space of others who will, ultimately, recognize us as beautiful...
...idea brewing inside the White House was to try to craft a "de-escalation strategy" that could walk both sides back to the point where they could at least talk peace. That was a tall order, given that the Ramallah murders and Israel's sharp retaliation were only the pinnacle of a fortnight of astonishments and new lows. On Oct. 7 a Palestinian mob demolished Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish holy place within the West Bank city of Nablus, after besieged Israeli troops withdrew from the site with assurances that Arafat's gendarmes would protect...
...arrival of the Cole--the ship's commanders notified Yemeni authorities 10 days before last Thursday that it would refuel in Aden--suggest that the attack was plotted weeks, even months, in advance. Once it pulled into Aden, the ship was highly vulnerable--to the bevy of small craft mingling around it, to the port authorities who had dispatched the moorers, to anyone with the cleverness and forethought to plan carefully for such a moment. If the commanders noticed anything suspicious as the Cole was moored, it was already too late. Said Admiral Vernon Clark, the Navy's chief...
...confession is in order: there are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector. I squirm through these masterpieces of emotional pornography, jotting down derisive notes. Oh, if the contrivance is blatant enough, I may get a bit teary; it is, after all, no more difficult for filmmakers to make an audience cry by depicting, say, a child in jeopardy than it is for a lap dancer to evoke an erection in her client...
...U.S.S. Cole was rammed in the port of Aden by an explosive-packed inflatable craft that blew a 30-foot hole in its port side, killing at least seven sailors and wounding about 30. Ten were reported to be missing and presumed dead. The Cole had been heading for the Gulf, where it was to help police sanctions against Iraq. The attack was followed Friday by an explosion at the British Embassy in Sana'a, the Yemeni capital. The suspect list in both incidents would have to include the Osama Bin Laden network, in whose stomping ground it occurred...