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Only Suslov squawked. He wanted to hold everything in check. "You can't do this!" he said. "That's all there is to it. How will the people understand?" My answer then and now is that the people will always distinguish good from...
...Yorkers are not polite. If you asked a New York cabdriver why he wasn't more polite, he might say something like, "Polite! Where do you think you are -- Iowa or Indiana or one of them?" New York cabdrivers do not usually bother to distinguish among states that begin with...
...Colombian authorities really want to destroy the cartels? No. The goal is primarily to drive them out of Colombia, which would not necessarily curtail cocaine production. Officials distinguish between drug trafficking, which mainly threatens the consumer countries, and narcoterrorism inside Colombia, which they are determined to stop. The constant terror bombings and assassinations have led to widespread calls for negotiation with the cartels. But that option has been rejected by both Barco and President-elect Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, who has promised to pursue the war when he takes office in August...
...were brought up," says Samar, "to distinguish between Zionism and Judaism. My mother had many Sephardic Jewish friends. But Zionism emerged out of the Holocaust. So why do the Palestinians have to pay for that? They were the victims. Now we are the victims. They came and took our land! They cannot solve their agony by victimizing the Palestinians...
...discovery that one of the two mirrors that form the heart of its optics had been incorrectly manufactured served mainly to focus attention on the limits of high technology. The immediate result is that for all Hubble's tremendous cost, two of its most heralded advantages -- the ability to distinguish very close objects and the knack for detecting faint light from the early universe -- are lost. Said John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "It's horrible...