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...serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene. Millions who have never read him are nonetheless familiar with his vision. Versions of Greene-scenes can be found in daily headlines or wherever entertainment flickers: the dubious quest, undertaken by a flawed agent with divided loyalties against an uncertain enemy; the wrench of fear or of violence that confronts an otherwise ordinary person with a vision of eternal damnation or inexplicable grace...
...eight years since it was founded, the Strategic Defense Initiative has poured $24 billion into various schemes for knocking down ballistic missiles, many of them dubious. But no Star Wars project seems more clearly -- or appropriately -- destined for the technological trash heap than the one that came to light last week. According to documents made public by the Federation of American Scientists for the express purpose of torpedoing the scheme, the Pentagon has for several years been secretly developing a new kind of booster rocket -- code-named Timberwind -- that would loft giant weapons into space on short notice. Its power...
...then, are the Arab masses to distinguish between 'good' and 'bad' Pan-Arabism? After all, Saddam's promises match point for point Mr. Ben-Gacem's nationalistic program: to emphasize the Arabs' "common traditions, common language, common history, common culture and common feelings" (all dubious concepts) and thus "unite together one day...to restore our pride and our lost throne...
...steamrollering her experiences "into a theory which takes no account of what has been happening in the rest of the Western world." A.S. Byatt, author of the best-selling novel Possession and a former University of London lecturer, agrees that images of beauty oppress women, but she is dubious about Wolf's notion of a conscious conspiracy. Instead, she says, the beauty business is pandering to dreams...
...ARAB. Henceforth, I refuse to be ambiguously labeled by my race. I refuse to be associated with some dubious perception of an inconceivable, quixotic Pan-Arabism which transcends nationality. I am a Kuwaiti, not an Arab. As such, I refuse to sacrifice my own cause for the sake of the Palestinians who have been the founding, immaleable basis of Arab nationalism. Why must it be that the only link that has held together our fragile Arab "brotherhood" for the last 40 years has been our common Zionist "enemy...