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There are darker shades too: Ryan refused to marry Quaid, with whom she had been involved for years, until he gave up cocaine. He did, she did, and they now have a son Jack, 3. So how are the cowboy and the lady making a go of it? "By just facing it. Love is not a decision your brain makes. It's a feeling you know somewhere else, and your brain catches up. But love challenges you in areas you need to be challenged in. It rests somewhere in not knowing what's going to happen. Not predicting. That...
Philip Weiss's article on extremist movements, "Outcasts Digging In for the Apocalypse" [COVER, May 1], while attempting to alert your readers to some of the darker elements in our society, ironically generates its own form of paranoia. Most disturbing is the simple insertion of "Christian home-schoolers" into the list of members of the far-right coalition. Of the families I know who educate their children at home, all do so with the goal of providing the best possible education for their children, not as a contribution to some seedy plot. Come...
...grim facts surrounding Oklahoma City, perhaps the grimmest is the one nobody talks about: against the backdrop of everyday American tragedy, 167 deaths is not many. Even if the darker fears now circulating were realized and this new form of murder began striking once or twice a year, the overall picture of violent death in America would barely change. In a typical year, guns kill 38,000 Americans and about that many die on our roads. These numbers routinely go up or down 2% or 3%-half a dozen Oklahoma bombings -- without making the front page...
...order to rescue his Eve he has to enlist the support of an acquaintance, a dull young English schoolteacher named Hugo, in a marriage of convenience. How the plans go awry and what consequences await the sultry Lourdes in provincial England provide one of the novel's darker, not to say drizzlier, ironies. As another character remarks, "In Cuba, you believe everything or you believe nothing. Because everything is crazy ... Nothing makes sense in Cuba." Under these circumstances Richard should have realized that nothing was going to go as he envisioned...
...there is a darker side to the Panthers' promising beginning. Tensions erupt in the wake of Betty Shabazz's visit when the Panthers discover that her Muslim escort had not loaded their guns. The message is clear and chilling: these guns are meant to be used. From then on, each encounter with the police is fraught with horrible tension; the police will not continue to tolerate this threat to their authority, while the Panthers are prepared to defend themselves and the Black community at the first sign of violence...