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...commend you for your article on AIDS in Africa [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 12]. The writing was beautiful and moving. The AIDS pandemic here in South Africa is a greater Goliath than apartheid was. And on the wider continental front, we who live and labor in Africa and love this continent fear that this plague could be our undoing unless extensive help reaches us from other countries. Thank you for making that appeal. But as critical as outside help is, especially for the millions of victims, the even greater responsibility lies within Africa to teach, preach and practice safe sex. Unless...
Remember Kosovo? According to Clinton administration spin during the 1999 bombing campaign, NATO was rallying to the defense of helpless ethnic Albanians and their brave champions in the Kosovo Liberation Army who were fighting a David-vs.-Goliath struggle against Belgrade's genocidal army. Well, guess what? Not only has NATO now declared armed Albanian nationalists of the KLA stripe to be the primary security problem in the region, the Western alliance is also considering asking the selfsame Yugoslav army to help NATO troops police the border between Kosovo and the neighboring former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia. NATO secretary general...
...Combs' legal team was seated on the front right-hand side of the courtroom. There were nine people, including Combs, at the table. The prosecutors' table at the left - perhaps to give a David-vs.-Goliath impression to the jury - had just one person seated at it, assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos. All of Combs' people were dressed in suits that varied in color from banker's black all the way to banker's gray. Puffy himself was dressed in a gray suit with a thin blue checkerboard pattern. When I first saw him enter the courtroom I thought...
...assuring its customers that under the French Golden Arches, they'd get French meat that came "from the farm" (rather than from some factory or laboratory). Clearly, the plucky little farmer had managed to don the mantle of Astérix, the cartoon character whose mythical David-vs.-Goliath fight against the Roman occupiers symbolizes French national pride. Some 45,000 people from all over the country crowded into Millau for a protest rally during his trial - and the local McDonald's kept its doors closed throughout the two days of hearings...
...first and most basic underscored lesson is that Americans are frustrated with government. This angle can be put into any story, pitting an innocent David against the Goliath-like government. A closely-related variant of this first rule--one that should catch the eye of any college student--is the talk of how youth are divorced from politics...