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Today's complete divorce of campaign word and elected deed is far more inimical to good government than the sensible and fair limitation of suffrage. With a limited electorate trained in the analysis of political rhetoric and well versed in the issues, politicians would gain precious little through even the most artful equivocation and seductive demagoguery...
...Prettiface won't let up. She eventually convinces him to do the deed, by promising she'll do a few deeds...
...director of the Indochinese Psychiatry Clinic at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, Massachusetts. He and his colleagues have worked with some 3,500 refugees, half of them Cambodians. The subjective meaning of rape in war, Mollica suggests, is created by the historical and cultural traditions that surround the deed. "Every society and subculture has a different way of dealing with rape," he says. In some societies the taint of rape is indelible and toxic. In Indochina, as in many areas with traditional societies, rape means the loss of a woman's sexual purity, the highest gift she can give...
Strong in principle, anyway. Whether theory will continue to be translated into deed is another question. Foreign leaders who have talked to Clinton or his representatives have reason to believe most of his instincts are sound. Britain, America's premier ally, hopes his Oxford background and age -- at 46, Clinton is of the same generation as Prime Minister John Major, 49 -- will reinforce the bond...
There is also human nature, which, as Cooper's tales present it, is a sorry thing. Sophistication doesn't improve it: the bloodiest deed in the Leatherstocking tales, a frontier My Lai, is the responsibility of a French aristocrat. Nor does the simple life guarantee innocence. Cooper's blackest villain is an Indian, his second blackest a hermit trapper who hunts scalps for bounty. The scene in which the trapper, scalped himself and dying, fears he may go to hell, is one of the most powerful Cooper ever wrote, and it owes its power to ethical earnestness as much...