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...curious distinction. Somehow Tsongas has managed to disconnect ambitions that have always seemed inseparable. For the moment, the message is what really matters. Either his ideas are vital to the country, Tsongas says, or he will go down in flames. Until that becomes clearer, he will stay resolved. "I must not do what Democrats usually do," he says, "and bend to special interests. I am the message. If I bend, I have no message...
...intelligent, curious, persistent, tough and straight as a laser beam? If you are all of the above -- and also black, Hispanic, Asian Native American or a woman -- you may qualify for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and get your college tuition paid by the government...
...Within 24 hours his soldiers, who had just taken over the capital of Addis Ababa, were again firing their guns. This time they battled not government forces but thousands of civilians who had taken to the streets to protest the sudden ascendancy of Meles' maverick band. It was a curious reaction, considering that Meles' troops had deposed Mengistu Haile Mariam, the onetime lieutenant colonel who had ruled Ethiopia for 14 bloody years. The demonstrations and crackdowns left at least 10 dead and an additional 400 wounded...
...right? Who knows? I'm not sure how Americans would react to seeing a real live person exterminated on national television. I'm not sure how I'd react myself. I don't consider myself a particularly bloodthirsty person, but I've got to admit--I'm kind of curious to see what it would be like to see someone die. I wonder what kind of effect it would have on me. Would I be sickened? Saddened? Angered? Relatively indifferent? Beats...
...ancestors are speaking through her -- it bestows on us a host of luminous surprises. The first is that the dowdy, pinchpenny old woman has a past more glamorous than fairy-tale, and more sad. The second is that in the light of her trials, her curious superstitions come to seem as sound as legal evidence. The final surprise may be the best of all: Tan has transcended herself again, triumphing over the ghosts, and the expectations, raised by her magnificent first book...