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Because different countries are different. I would not fear an Iceland with nuclear weapons any more than I fear a Britain with nuclear weapons. I do fear Iran or North Korea with nuclear weapons...
Martin's tone is not cautious, exactly, but careful. The writing is evocative, unflinching and cool. When he takes a scalpel to his life, what you feel is the precision of the surgeon more than the primal scream of the unanesthetized patient. "My biggest fear," he says, "was that when you're writing about yourself, you're writing about yourself. It could come off like an ego trip." But Born Standing Up is neither fanfare nor confession. It gives off a vibe of rigorous honesty. With lots of laughs...
...what’s at the bottom of this? Why would Bush and some Republicans, who in some areas might champion efficiency, opt for a status quo that only increases costs for everyone else? Well, their fear is that if we provide basic primary care to the nation’s children, we are one step closer to “socialized” medicine and the land of Lenin. This may sound like dubious logic, but there’s an element of truth...
...issues, like gay marriage and a woman’s right to choose. But Caleb’s reappearance reminded me of an offer he made to my practicing roommate last year to join him and some guys in a Bible study group. Last year, I was intrigued but fearful. I was born in San Francisco, where liberalism is all there is. I’m Jewish, and I am now the president of the Harvard BAGELS (Bisexual and Gay, Even Lesbian Semites). As interested as I was, a Bible study with conservatives just wouldn?...
...longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination and learned to trust its own talents...