Word: destructionism
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Jakarta's governor, Sutiyoso, has blamed the destruction on cyclical weather patterns and drainage problems in neighboring Bogor, which he says he is powerless to control. "There is no point in throwing abuse around," he told a local radio station. Meanwhile, with elections scheduled for next year, the fear in...
Jan. 31, 2007 began as a day like any other. In the City of Boston, adults went to work, children went to school, lovers fell in love, and haters stood at a respectable distance from each other. Then, on that clear, bright morning, the enemy struck—not terrorists...
On the evening of Aug. 30, while my daughter was attending a political meeting at her film studio, I was sitting alone in my study reading William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which had come from a London bookshop with which I had an account. The...
(12 of 15) kind of surrender.'' But Israel over the years has hardened into the style of its region. ''Security'' in the Israeli lexicon is an emotionally charged absolute. Soon after Golda Meir took office in 1969, the Israeli psychology began to shift away from the old predisposition to negotiate...
(14 of 15) national-unity government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the right-wing Likud bloc, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, head of the Labor Party, is divided over nearly every major decision. Craven leaders, afraid to offend any large minority, conduct government by near paralysis. The present...