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...peers over the desert, it's the closest thing I have ever experienced to being in outer space. Then, as the light floods the plain, its birds begin to move: the black crows, the white cockatoos uttering their first tentative dawn screams, the rainbow lorikeets. A hawk sails over, and a mob of kangaroos hop by. A new day, the merest crumb of eternity, has begun. To see this is to love Australia; it is to become more Australian, even in the act of sensing your own insignificance in the vast, indifferent timescale of the desert...
...high priestess lifts her arms to the crescent moon, her bright silver pentagrams shimmering in the light of a burning cauldron. About her stand hooded figures, some with long forked staffs bearing stag horns and hawk feathers, animal skins and other talismans. "Circle of power," she chants, "I conjure thee to ban such things as named by me...Attract such things as named by me...Be cleansed of all impurity...So mote it be." Surrounded by swarms of mosquitoes, the others chant back in litany, "So mote...
While the collapse of the peace process may have been accelerated by Netanyahu, it was already in trouble even before the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin -? and Barak had been considered a hawk in Rabin?s cabinet. After taking office as prime minister next week, Barak plans to visit Washington and to meet with Yasser Arafat. The atmospherics of those meetings will seem light-years away from the sullen exchanges with Netanyahu, but don?t expect the deep substantive differences to melt like the morning mist...
...course, if candidates are not going to risk annoying anyone by spelling out their policy commitments, they still have to sell themselves to the voters. This involves finding ways of generating good feelings about the candidate, pretty much in the same way that successful ad makers hawk their products less on the basis of their specific virtues than on the associations they invoke. And in the same way that ad makers look for those patterns of positive association that will turn their product into a market leader, so do campaign makers look to package their candidate in associations familiar...
...grunts who fly the choppers say they're confident in their aircraft and their mission plan. "Some people have a perception that we are daunted by the threat posed by heat-seeking missiles, small-arms fire, radar systems and things like that," says Captain Mark Arden, with Task Force Hawk in Albania. "But enormous resources are put into this aircraft to defeat just those threats...