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...very quickly learn they're made up of flesh and blood, and they have their own flaws as well," Brokaw says. "I remember seeing Dwight Eisenhower--this great icon of American life--and he looked like my grandfather...
Imperial China used to administer a punishment called death by a thousand cuts. Each slice in the prisoner's flesh was minor, but the overall effect was fatal. There are some similarities in the way the U.S.-China relationship is enduring a series of clashes and confrontations. Each one is relatively small, but taken together they threaten the viability of the Administration's policy of cooperation and engagement with Beijing. President Clinton last week proposed an extension of China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status for another year. Congress will soon take up the issue in what is expected...
...reveal a moral absolutist who sees Russia in a death struggle with the U.S. When George Bush spoke of a new world order, Zyuganov labeled the idea "geopolitical sabotage," nothing but a plot to "establish the West's global supremacy." Capitalism, Zyuganov has written, "doesn't fit in our flesh and blood, in our everyday life, in our habits and in the mentality of our society...
Cannes has been selling flesh and fantasy for a half-century now. In the 22 feature films competing for the 1996 Palme d'Or, to be awarded early this week by a 10-member jury headed by director Francis Ford Coppola, the flesh was on ample display (and with male nudity for once more evident than female, this was the Festival of Many Penises). But the fantasy this year was darker, more disturbing. One of the prime Palme d'Or contenders, Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, is a tale of religious and romantic belief, a kind of Song...
Twist any paleontologist's arm and you'll eventually elicit a fantasy about meeting long-extinct animals in the flesh. That's understandable enough, for fossil bones and teeth are frustratingly mute about so many of the things that made them the living organisms they once were. This is never more true than with the fossils of early hominids. But few paleoanthropologists have actually had the nerve to go public with their most imaginative musings, at least partly because they are so conscious of the gulf between what can and cannot reliably be said...