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...concur with Museveni's statement, "Unless you say all the societies in the whole world are uniform, then you cannot say their political management must be uniform." First, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and heal the sick. Then give them political liberties. It may be repulsive to Western civil libertarians, but as Museveni says, Africa is not the West. Fundamental rights can be given attention only when the socioeconomic and cultural diversity of a state has reached the right equilibrium. KIPKORIR KIRUI Dallas...
Diana could touch and feel; perhaps she believed she could heal. Watching her on television, jolting with tears as she listened to a speech praising and defending her work, one saw signs of an almost delusional inner drama. If power corrupts the self, then absolute fame must surely distort it. Her enthusiasms were crankish, hypochondriac, self-obsessive: aromatherapy, colonic irrigation, the fool's gold of astrology. Diana, I repeat, was "soft" news. She caused sensations by wearing a party dress or by gaining a kilo of weight. She made headlines with every wave of her hand, every twitch...
This premillennial Woodstock got started 12 years ago when an unknown artist, Larry Harvey, built a wooden statue on a foggy beach near San Francisco and then set it on fire. For Harvey it was a catharsis to heal a broken relationship. For his friends it was a soul-energizing blast, and Harvey decided it should be an annual ritual. He cast a single brilliant rule: no spectators. What he wanted, he said, was to create "a Disneyland in reverse." Everyone had to be a participant and march in the electric-light parade...
That was in March 1993, and Downs has since begun to heal financially and emotionally, in part by giving warning lectures to senior audiences. Other victims have been less fortunate. Some have plunged into such despair that they have lost their will to live. "We have had people tell us they were close to suicide," says Susan Somers, an assistant attorney general in New York State...
DOCTORS Bring back Marcus Welby. A.M.A. endorses a line of medical products. Physicians, heal thyselves...