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Such sociological rancor can be therapeutic. But there are historical hatreds so strongly rooted, they imprison the hater. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $22.95) is the story of a young man's attempt to break from his father's inflamed obsession with anti-Semitism and its central event of this century, Hitler's Final Solution. Edgy with irony and urban humor, the book also gives a rare insider's view of an insular Jewish community that is as alien to mainstream American Jewry as it is to the rest of the country...
...this suggests the "cycle of dependency" that needs to be cured is not so much one of the dependency on government "handouts" as one of dependency on abusive men. Abuse, even of the verbal kind, saps self-esteem; physical abuse can imprison a woman at home, too ashamed to show up for work with a black eye or cigarette burns. No matter where they start out in the socioeconomic spectrum, victims of abuse are especially vulnerable to poverty and--to round out the cycle--poor women are especially vulnerable to abuse...
...filled with the ingredients for nerve gas. The cult is the chief suspect in last week's nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 10 and injured thousands, with hundreds still hospitalized. In another cult building, police found underground rooms that they believed were used to imprison people who tried to flee the sect. Police found millions of dollars worth of yen, piles of gold bars and tons of chemicals in cult buildings, including theingredients of sarin-- the nerve gas used in the Tokyo attack -- as well as glycerin compounds that could be used to make explosives...
...intellectuals trip over one another in their eagerness to castigate the down-and-out as muggers, sluts, and even -- in the case of Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their new book, The Bell Curve -- retards. No political candidate dare step up to a lectern without promising to execute, imprison and snatch alms from the hands of the "underclass...
...government's crusade to purify French culture appears eerily reminiscent of Germany's infamous cultural campaign leading up to World War II. The German government banned and confiscated "degenerate" works of art and encouraged citizens to burn "impure" foreign books. Still, as far as I know, Germany did not imprison citizens for letting a foreign syllable slip from their Teutonic tongues...