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...case in point is Ernst Jünger’s On the Marble Cliffs. Junger’s work is purportedly a “resistance story,” recounting the tale of two travelers who encounter, and later flee, a viciously despotic ruler not too different from Hitler himself. In Ryan’s view, however, the gory but gorgeous detail lavished upon the so-called villains of the novel uses the “aestheticization of violence” to glorify barbaric sadism...
...over again. Says Rehman the human-rights activist: "The freed men will now be thirsting for revenge against Mai and her family." Several human-rights activists are demanding that the Pakistani government provide Mai and her family with police protection; without it, they say, she may have to flee the village to avoid harm. Unbowed, Mai intends to keep teaching at the schoolhouse she built. The larger lessons of her traumatic experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned...
...BRAND X PICTURES/GETTY. MANIPULATION BY GARETH BURGESS console the 1,750 passengers who had paid up to $79,000 to flee the British winter. But some memories of the fiasco might be blunted by P&O's provision of free drinks while it tried to make the 76,000-ton luxury liner seaworthy. The drinks tally for the truncated trip came to 12,800 beers, 12,600 bottles of wine and 9,800 cocktails...
...hell? Some did, it turns out, and died anyway. Others stayed, out of fatalism or simply because they didn't know what a volcanic eruption was. They watch thunderstruck as pumice falls from the sky like an otherworldly snowstorm. Later, as superheated ash cascades, it is too late to flee...
...numbers, but the question is, How effective is the Guard going to be if its troops don't have much military experience?" says Lawrence Korb, Pentagon personnel chief during the Reagan Administration. What's more, the military may have to begin promoting soldiers with inadequate experience if senior sergeants flee. "Promoting more rapidly leads to a less effective military," Korb says. "We're going to end up with a less effective force and, in another year, I think we could break...