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Victims of an illegal war of choice, helpless civilians are ripped asunder by showers of bombs and bullets, while others are driven from their homes only to suffer the mortal pangs of disease and malnutrition. State-sponsored militias and killing squads swoop down into villages and ravage them, going from street to street and house to house, propelled by an extraordinary sense of revenge and right. Places of worship are rehabilitated into killing fields, where the wounded and infirm are annihilated in the presence of God. These invaders, some indigenous and some from far-off lands, do not fight...
...Even the creators can't agree. Marber, who should know, says, "I always maintain, and still maintain, that it's a love story, because everything that happens in the piece is driven by love. Of course it's also about competition and sex and loneliness and all these other things. But it's not just about war. It's about love...
...some of us might wish it were otherwise, the reality is that there are a small number of professions in which the demand for top talent far outstrips the supply,” Rapier wrote. “Intense competition for the very best people in those fields has driven their compensation levels to breathtaking heights: network news anchors, Fortune 500 CEOs, professional athletes, and entertainers with box-office appeal. Managers who can successfully invest billion-dollar funds are in that same league...
...DRIVEN OUT Jordan cracks down on the P.L.O. Soon afterward, Arafat moves to Lebanon...
...have learned that the power to knock a man down doesn't teach him how to be a good democrat. The second was the tragic (or almost criminal) indifference to the deadliest problem in the affairs of nations: the gap between means and ends. Your Administration's ends were driven by cosmic ambitions: bring democracy to Iraq, wipe out Islamic terrorism, remake the Middle East. All of this with 130,000 troops who were to stay no longer than 18 months? Vast ambitions cannot be financed out of petty cash. And while clarity of vision and purpose informed the Administration...