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...nature to search for heroes, and Moses, rebel and saint, is as relevant today as he ever was. He is a metaphor for our times, proof that a single flawed human being can be chosen to change the world. Is it any wonder then that the great and the small cite him for inspiration? Martin Luther King Jr. evoked him in his thunderingly prophetic speeches. Only last month several Republican Congressmen grandly compared the fallen Newt Gingrich to the man who led the chosen people out of the desert. Movie directors have immortalized him, most famously as a bewigged Charlton...
Smith's narrative is like Adam's diagram: all the pieces seem to fit, but we never feel the animating emotion behind it. We know Alex is driven by unresolved grief and anger, but we don't feel it except at aremove, as when the inebriated hero scrawls out sardonic responses on a hotel feedback form. ("How did you find your sleeping arrangements? Lonely.") We know that Alex's search for Kitty is a spiritual quest because the titles of that section are taken from the Zen parable "Ten Bulls." Nice touch, but it would be better if we knew...
...court. A second front has opened, too, along domestic political lines. Prime Minister Ivica Racan's weak center-left coalition faces a population that largely regards Bobetko as a titan of Croatia's three-and-a-half-year independence war with Slobodan Milosevic's Yugoslavia. "Bobetko is a national hero," says one Zagreb man, reflecting the view of up to 80% of the population. Sending Bobetko to the Hague would be political suicide for Racan. Given the overwhelming support for Bobetko, cooperating with the prosecutors would doom his coalition, if not immediately then at the next election, due late next...
...ideas may not garner universal support; they are not intended to. Rain dispersed the crowd watching Ferris Bueller long before the hero triumphed and Mr. Rooney limped home defeated. However, outspoken and outgoing, Summers has already outdone Rudenstine in his contributions to Harvard’s intellectual and social vitality. Long may he continue...
...dying of exposure. His experience with the KGB, which denied the fugitive entry into their crumbling empire but allowed him to sneak back into China undetected, is a plot twist worthy of a thriller. Much of Escape from China reads like a novel, with the author as the resourceful hero whose struggle epitomizes the fate of the individual under totalitarianism. That Zhang has come to see his journey in religious terms?he was born again in the snows of Siberia, and is now a pastor in Los Angeles?is a passage taken by many of the Tiananmen Generation...