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...overwhelm his reason, a man who sets his own roadblocks and then tries to run them in a battered Volkswagen. He stands as a crazy metaphor for the world in Kubrick's eyes: the rational progress we make always seems to be a step behind the torture we inflict on the earth and the nuclear apocalypse we plan for. In the end, we will be limping after the future, bloody ax in hand, howling for one more breath of life...
Muskie neither threatened nor cajoled, but he stressed in his private sessions with the ministers that the Carter Administration regarded sanctions as "important" because they would inflict hardship and a sense of isolation on the Tehran regime. To reporters, he added that "pain is a highly motivating force" and "sanctions [are] a specific way of communicating to Iran...
...view that women are objects to be controlled is also used to justify wife-beating. If wives are possessions then they must tolerate whatever violence their husbands might choose to inflict. The widespread societal acceptance of this role for women is nowhere more evident than in the case of Kitty Genovese who was murdered several years ago in the streets of New York City. Although 29 people heard her screams, none called the police. Most explained that they thought the attacker was her husband...
...European Community summit. The organization's experts have prepared memos outlining the economic and legal aspects of a potential boycott of Iran. One Community study argues that an economic boycott, in concert with the U.S. and Japan, could impose much more damage on Iran than that country could inflict in retaliation by cutting off oil shipments. Reason: in the wake of the Iranian crisis, the allies have gradually been reducing their purchases of oil from Tehran, but Iranian industry still needs West European goods to keep going. E.C. members now get only 3% of their oil from Iran, and Japan...
...Some critics trace this concern to the Justices' embarrassment over their own private doings as set forth in the bestselling book The Brethren and to the anticipated candor of the late Justice Douglas' forthcoming memoirs (see LAW). But the problem of leaks, and the damage they may inflict, is a real one. It has much to do with the kind of society we have become...