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...BOTTOM LINE: The work of talents who did not escape the Holocaust offers witness to what might have been...
...Walter, Otto Klemperer and other purveyors of "degenerate art" found a safe haven in the U.S. Gentile and Jew alike, they contributed immeasurably to the development of music in America. But what of those not so lucky as to escape? What talents were consigned to the flames of the Holocaust? The fascinating and moving new CD Silenced Voices offers poignant witness to what was -- and what might have been...
...doing something so maybe our incompetent Bosnia policy won't be noticed." Incompetent? "Yes," insists this adviser. "We're long on huffing and puffing. We're great at raising the stakes and talking about how what's happening in Bosnia is the most awful thing since the Holocaust. But then when it's time to make a real commitment of blood and treasure, it turns out we're ready to spend all of 2 cents on it. So this week the President talks about protecting Macedonia and he supports a U.N. border patrol to monitor Serbia's promise...
...divided Congress and a skeptical American people. In a TIME/CNN poll, only 36% of those surveyed said the U.S. should do more to stop the war in Bosnia, vs. 52% who said the U.S. has already done enough. For many Americans, the horror of Bosnia is a modern- day Holocaust that carries a moral obligation to intervene. Some Americans think the U.S. can do so at a low cost in lives, expecting the fast-acting, high-tech precision of the Gulf War. But many shudder and see the frustration of Vietnam, the years of domestic conflict and the long black...
...action, which is the Democratic ((Party)) politicians' historic preference. The President's created a political problem for himself, so he's seeking to get out of it politically, with tactics that have the look and feel of real, muscular action. That's the game now. The morality rhetoric -- the Holocaust analogy and all that -- will of course continue as the President rallies the country. But as the underlying reason for action, morality takes a back seat to politics...