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...proper avenue for criminal justice is through courts of law, and only those found guilty of actually committing the crime can be held accountable. Vigilantism is clearly forbidden, as are random acts of retaliation against innocents. Even in a state of war, children and those who are not physically fighting cannot be targets. This goes beyond the West's conception of fair war; Western cities have many times come under severe bombing resulting in civilian casualties...
...loose abroad was about 15 years ago, when he used an African setting for The Coup. Now he retells the Tristan and Isolde legend as a love story about a black teenage mugger from the hillside slums of Rio and an upper-class white girl with a hunger for forbidden experience...
...strange place for a war. Bodies slump insensibly in overstuffed chairs. A peach rots silently in a wastebasket--forbidden fruit, barely tasted...
...smiled and looked out the window at flooded rice fields that reached from the sunset to the edge of the highway. We talked about my itinerary for the week: Xiamen, my grandparents' tombs, this and that famous temple and mountain; what I'd seen in Beijing: the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall; where else I'd been: Xinjiang, Xian, Tianjin...
This can be seen, for example, in the way Western observers keep moving the goalposts for that hero of democracy, Boris Yeltsin. Democracy lovers have been remarkably understanding as Yeltsin has shut down newspapers, produced a constitution out of his hip pocket that makes him virtual czar, forbidden candidates in the recent election to criticize his constitution on television, put off for years his own need to run for re-election and so on. This was all justified as an "interim" necessity in order to establish Russia on a democratic course. But if Yeltsin continues to govern in a style...