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...towns, either for the border with Cambodia or for closer hideouts, are regularly questioned by police and local officials. Some are made to take loyalty oaths, which one district leader in Dak Nong province refers to as "brotherhood ceremonies." Farmers are followed to their fields, their shopping is monitored lest they buy food for those in hiding, and security personnel are billeted in people's homes, particularly those with relatives who earlier fled to the U.S. (Highlands officials say government representatives live and labor with poor families to help them with their work.) A Jarai woman says more than...
...reference to the Bible's Solomon-and-the-disputed-baby story, in which the child's authentic mother elects to give up the child rather than see it cut in half. "They were telling me that I was their real mother, come to care for them," she says. Lest a listener miss the point, she elaborates, "When children come to the father, he looks down and doesn't know what to do. But when they come to the mother, she looks up and sees to their needs...
...blow up a nightclub because of a vision of heaven and earth and right and wrong that we may not understand but can't just ignore. It is as though Bush can't allow the possibility that the enemy is motivated by its understanding of God's will lest his critics note that he believes the same of himself. So he portrays the terrorists as heirs of the Nazis and communists: totalitarian in vision, cynical by nature, manipulative in their appeal, certainly not devout. They "couch their language in religious terms. But that doesn't make them religious people...
...steel did not search him again, and he remained in such a tacit communion with the fragrance he drank, that he feared to move lest he break it. He could not notice when the air which had soothed him became hot and bitter, or the darkness to which he clung turned into a cage of burning wire...
...Levy, combined with his overstatements about what he deems her “cartoonishness,” would, as I have said before, make Soskin’s review simply laughable, were it not for the fear that many Crimson readers might not know to disregard his claims. Lest readers think that I am simply reacting to Soskin’s opinions—which he has the right both to possess and to publish—I would like to emphasize again the one-sided nature of his review, not only in its method of criticizing Levy but also...