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...destruction equally enraged Muslims -- roughly 12% of India's population of 870 million -- and ignited the gravest crisis in India since the religious massacres that followed independence in 1947. Muslim and Hindu mobs armed with knives, hatchets and fire bombs attacked each other's houses of worship, homes and people in Bombay, Calcutta and other cities. A semiofficial death count topped 1,000, though the true toll was believed to be much higher. Muslim mobs burned Hindu temples and homes in the neighboring, predominantly Islamic countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh; more than 30 people were killed in Pakistan. Even...
...prerequisite for elective office -- so that ambitious young men from Harry Truman to George Bush clamored to be in combat -- an unrepentant draft avoider has been elected President. And Bill Clinton says one of his first official acts will be what an agonized hierarchy sees as the gravest challenge ever to military folkways. Their last refuge of traditional masculinity, of an orderly and authoritarian world of moral black and white, is to be opened to admitted homosexuals by Executive Order. The proposed change comes at the same time that a presidential report recommends another assault on the masculine mind...
...defended a version of liberalism notrooted in absolute philosophy but rather in theoverriding imperative to avoid cruelty, violenceand injustice," said Professor of GovernmentMichael J. Sandel. "For her, the point of politicswas not to achieve the highest human ideals, butrather to avoid the gravest of human evils...
...gravest error the Republicans may have made was not resting their case with Barbara Bush. Instead they also spotlighted Marilyn Quayle as the symbol of their baby-boomer professional woman who gave it all up for the man she loves. Those worried about Hillary Clinton being a co-President (although in 11 years as First Lady in Arkansas, no one accused her of being co-Governor) should take a look at Mrs. Quayle's activities. She was her husband's campaign manager and has an office near his in the Old Executive Office Building, where she spends much...
Yakovlev commented immediately afterward that even though he was relieved Gorbachev had made sure the troops held their fire, the attempted intimidation of Yeltsin's followers was Gorbachev's gravest mistake to date. Gorbachev may have jeopardized not only his chance to make common cause with Yeltsin, said Yakovlev, but perhaps "his place in history" as well...