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Enter Barcelona by Robert Hughes, the chronicle of a city foretold...
...traditional miracles now? Perhaps, as Elie Wiesel once suggested, people need reassurance that miracles are still possible, even for them: the dreariest fate may be reversed. The miracle is antidote to the despair that arises from sheer inevitability. The disintegration of Soviet communism, said to have been foretold at Fatima, has had a surreal quality of the miraculous reversal about...
Some experts fear trouble in Russia and other Soviet republics even this winter, if food shortages deepen into famine and provoke riots. "Perhaps the threat of dictatorship has been removed for the time being, but the danger persists," says former Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, who accurately foretold the failed August coup attempt by old-line communists. "I am afraid of uncontrolled, spontaneous ((crowd)) movements," he adds. "The people are tired, and food is lacking...
...that are misunderstood as political terrorism. The action is set in 1962, mostly during the week when Nelson Mandela was taken into custody. That arrest, and its long-term deforming consequences for South African society, plays an oblique but significant role in the narrative -- especially in the distant fate foretold for the team in the novel's final paragraphs. Despite the deep optimism inherent in depicting their relationship, McClure ends in glints of gloom. He implies that no such bond can survive forever the fire storm of that nation's rage...
Even before the fires were set, antiwar activists foretold global catastrophe if Saddam ignited the oil fields. Thick black clouds, some scientists predicted, could reach the upper atmosphere, snuffing out an entire growing season and threatening millions with starvation. During the war, the Pentagon issued what turned out to be exaggerated assessments of oil spills into the gulf, putting Saddam Hussein's acts of ecoterrorism in the worst possible light. Kuwaiti officials appear to be still overstating the amount of oil going up in smoke: the Kuwaitis say they are losing 6 million bbl. per day (roughly equal...