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...Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones. This collection of short stories about damaged men poses important questions: Is courage a virtue, or is it simply testosterone poisoning? Is God just a neurochemical event, part of the tantalizing aura that precedes an epileptic fit? Jones is an ex-Marine and former amateur prizefighter who puts a wallop in his prose...
...guests warmly, giving no sign he is troubled by the turmoil of things not done. He is direct and engaging, full of a charm half calculated, half natural as he makes his case. Asked if he has concerns about his own personal security, he chuckles. ''I only fear God.'' Visitors to Yitzhak Rabin's modest office in western Jerusalem expect their sessions with him to be strictly business. He is known to be abrupt, omitting from such visits so much as hello or goodbye. The office is hectic. Chants of angry Jewish settlers camped outside to protest the peace agreement...
...militant factions have vowed to break any deal that delivers less than an independent Palestinian state now, this instant. Fanatical settlers and other right-wing Jews swear never to give up one inch of the West Bank soil that is part of what they call Eretz Yisrael, the land God gave to the Jews. The pressure from enemies only complicates an already knotty negotiation. When the two were alone with President Clinton just before the ceremony in Washington, Rabin recalls, ''Arafat and I didn't exchange anything, except I told him it's going to be very difficult to implement...
...Clausewitzian instrument (foreign policy that happens to kill) useful in settling disputes. But not everyone has absorbed the lesson. Among other things, war has an archetypal prestige and bristling drama with which peace has trouble competing: Milton's Lucifer in Paradise Lost is much more interesting than Milton's God. War is rich and vivid, with its traditions, its military academies, its ancient regiments and hero stories, its Iliads, its flash. Peace is not exciting. Its accoutrements are, almost by definition, unremarkable if they work well. It is a rare society that tells exemplary stories of peacemaking -- except...
Friday, Nov. 4Aberdeen City CD Release Party. The local mood-rock band is performing at TT The Bear’s Place to herald the release of their debut CD, The Freezing Atlantic, featuring the radio single “God is Going to Get Sick of Me.” Why Twist the Hair opens at 9:15 p.m. with The Plain Janes and the Bon Savants playing at 10:15 and 11:15. T.T. The Bear’s Place. 12:15 a.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster or at the door, $9. (DFH)Babaloo. Babaloo is releasing their...