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...contact, forced fake hellos—who needs that? Better to hate privately, and smile tolerantly in public, give more genuinely fake hellos. This form of hatred is healthy, harmless, and a whole lot of fun. It allows us to have all sorts of lively conversation behind our enemies?? backs, and we all know these conversations are spectacular...
Perhaps a less gullible mind would read between the lines of the defense department’s announced intentions. It seems naive to take at face value the department’s absurdly improbable plan to kidnap our enemies?? bombsmiths and hope the kind offer of asylum will move them to reveal their secrets. Since jail-time might not be as effective with Iraqi scientists as mobsters, the defense department could find itself tempted to turn to a bit of off-the-books torture once the U.N. handed over the new guests...
Since Dzerzhinsky was, along with Vladimir Lenin, the driving impetus behind this savagery, he was given the nickname “Iron Felix.” At his orders, captured “enemies?? of the regime were often sent to forced labor and concentration camps or else just summarily killed in their jail cells. On one night alone in 1919, some 1,500 Moscow prisoners were executed at Dzerzhinsky’s command. His Cheka was also feared for its particularly sadistic methods of torture. These included shoving victims into tanks of boiling water, sawing their bones...
...hunt defines many students’ day-to-day lives. Some skip classes, choosing instead to map out their enemies?? days and follow them to class...
...sentences. But he is quick to dismiss his critics and just as quick to praise his supporters and collaborators. When I read him part of Mark Ridley’s New York Times review of The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Gould calls Ridley “one of my enemies?? and scoffs at his comment that the book is too wordy. Two days later Gould paid generous tribute to Ernst Mayr, a forefather of the theory of punctuated equilibrium and fellow Harvard professor, in a lecture and book launch reception sponsored by the 2002 Harvard Scientists Lecture Series...