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...political career won't go the way of Dan Quayle's. Clinton chose the senator for far more than his all-American looks, and his fans in the party applaud his stands on the issues. But amidst the hoopla about his environmentalism and his foreign policy record, people still grasp for pictures. Why else do Democrats quiver in anticipation of a Gore-Quayle debate...
While world attention has centered on Sarajevo, the Serbs and Croats who already control most of Bosnia have been taking over more of what had been - left outside their grasp. A Serb offensive in northern Bosnia last week linked two pieces of territory to form the "Derventa corridor" -- a continuous belt of Serb-held territory running all the way from Serbia proper through the town of Derventa to Serb-populated zones of Croatia. At the Croatian end, the Serbs fired a 155-mm artillery shell that slammed into a soccer stadium crowded with refugees on the Croatian side...
...fury at what he sees as Pentagon duplicity, MacArthur virtually demands that chief executives of large news organizations insult the government with defiance rather than hear its case. He seems not to grasp that the perception of just such behavior by reporters has alienated a large percentage of the public these news organizations are meant to serve. Although many readers complain that journalists do not seem patriotic, MacArthur thinks reporters should be neutral about whether their country's forces win or lose. He also dismisses in a sentence or two some practical reasons why the war was covered almost entirely...
MacArthur never seems to grasp the full significance of what the Pentagon actually did during the war, which is equivalent to what Ross Perot is doing in peacetime. By using live TV to reach the public, generals and their overseers could bypass the reporting process, cut out the middlemen, and thus avoid tough questions and independent opinion. Once upon a time, the public counted on reporters to journey to war for them. Satellite TV lets the public believe it has taken that journey for itself...
...Moorish conquest grew the first unified culture Spain had seen since the collapse of the Roman Empire. It lasted until 1492, when Catholic armies, under Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, drove the last vestiges of Arab power back to North Africa. If you want to grasp why Spain, traditionally, is unique in Europe, you must begin with the fact that no other European country was so permeated -- in language, customs and cultural forms -- by Islam...