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Nelson Mandela has always felt most at ease around children, and in some ways his greatest deprivation was that he spent 27 years without hearing a baby cry or holding a child's hand. Last month, when I visited Mandela in Johannesburg - a frailer, foggier Mandela than the one I used to know - his first instinct was to spread his arms to my two boys. Within seconds they were hugging the friendly old man who asked them what sports they liked to play and what they'd had for breakfast. While we talked, he held my son Gabriel, whose complicated...
...rhetoric of war has always come trippingly off the tongue. But as soldiers know, the reality of war is a fog of confusion. And this war may be foggier than most. Nobody knows how to fight a global war against terrorists and those who harbor them--nobody has ever fought such a war before. As officials in Washington scrambled to assess their options last week, they faced questions unknown to their predecessors in high office: Who is our enemy? Where will the war's battlefields...
...curious way, heaven is AWOL. This is not to say that Americans think death ends everything or even that they doubt heaven's existence. People still believe in it: it's just that their concept of exactly what it is has grown foggier, and they hear about it much less frequently from their pastors. To reverse the words of the old spiritual: Everybody's goin' to heaven, just ain't talkin' 'bout it. The silence is such that it sometimes seems heaven might as well not be there. Kreeft complains that even if our basic belief has not wavered...
...right to let Karen die, claiming that the denial of that right is "cruel and unusual" punishment. Though several cases have held that a mentally competent person has a constitutional right to choose to die rather than be treated, the law is far from settled. It is even foggier on when, if ever, the guardian of an incompetent like Karen can exercise that same right on her behalf...
...actors themselves have a hard assignment, since the structure of the play prevents them from giving any sort of recognizable character study. Robert Jordan, as Private Peter Able, gives the best performance of the evening. His reading is extraordinarily clear, and even some of the foggier lines seemed to mean something when he speaks them. In the part of Private David King, Michael Harwood is just noisy and energetic enough to keep things alive. Earle Edgerton encumbers his characterization of the aging Private Tim Meadows with an unconvincing Cockney accent, but his performance improves when he drops it near...