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...Assassination,'" supporting Israel's targeted response to Palestinian bombers [VIEWPOINT, Aug. 27]. Israel is responding as the U.S. would to stave off the wave of indiscriminate acts by Palestinian suicide bombers, who are not martyrs but murderers. The only reason Israel is negotiating is that it wants peace. RON GALLOP New York City...
...struggle was Bill Clinton (playing the roles of both her nasty husband and her robber-lover). Standing in (unsatisfactorily) for the robber gang, we have her moral smudges and various adventures ambiguously outside the law--billing records and all of that. But Hillary skipped the massacre, the rifle, the gallop across the plains, and went straight to the U.S. Senate...
...heart of DJ culture is encouraging a new generation of music fans to investigate the sounds of eras gone by--but unless hip-hoppers can find a way to preserve their own creations, they may simply be spinning their discs. And as today's country queens and hat acts gallop off in pursuit of pop glory, country music's grand ole history seems abandoned, like some sad burden left roadside. Fortunately, there are musicians who have found new ways to overcome old barriers and fresh approaches to reclaiming worthy traditions. These performers, composers and programmers hear cinematic sounds in computer...
...Charles aspired to be a jockey, and he would gallop from place to place, slapping the back of his thighs with his hands to make the sound of a horse's hoofs. His father had a plowhorse named Bill, a long-suffering white mare. The three of us boys would climb aboard the broad acreage of Bill's back and ride her down the oystershell road to the blacktop and then on to Chink's roadhouse, where we would go in by the "Colored" entrance and there, in a barroom twilight amid the stale beer and dead cigarette smells, Charles...
...across the country, conservation officers use mechanical Bambis, most of them made by a Wisconsin taxidermist, to nab poachers. The deer don't gallop through the woods or eat prize rhododendrons. Only their heads and tails move. But that's all it takes. "You can't believe the look on a guy's face," Malette says, when a brawny hunter discovers he has just blown holes in a stuffed animal with AA batteries in its head...