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...Such logic aside, Western diplomats point out that Milosevic, like other autocrats, is not above creating bloody diversions if he feels his grip on power is threatened--as it may be by unexpected results in upcoming elections. And while independent-leaning Montenegrins, many of whom fought for Milosevic in earlier Balkan wars, do not savor the prospect of another battle, there is little love lost for a President whose policies have wrecked the economy and turned their homeland into a pariah state. One thing is clear: if there is a war in this tiny republic, it will be cataclysmic...
...when pop culture raises the dead, it also raises a tension between faith and logic. Even for the secular, accepting death often involves a belief, absent proof, about the undiscovered country beyond life. These programs fill a hunger, sneered at by hip media insiders, for soul food, but they also risk oversimplifying an eternal conundrum. Offering easy evidence of something beyond, however heartwarming, runs counter to faith. And faith--religious or otherwise--is all most of us have to make do with...
...Gore's cries of fiscal irresponsibility, Bush has a sort of reverse-psychology tack: Announce more spending initiatives. The logic: Why would a man promise to spend more money if his tax cut was using it all up? So Thursday, Bush announced a proposal to boost federal funding by $600 million over five years for historically black colleges and institutions that serve large Hispanic student populations...
...slightly perverse logic, but Americans sometimes have a political impulse to play hunches, to cast the part contrary to expectation and grant immunities even when they might seem irresponsible. It's the impulse that in part explains Ronald Reagan's success. With the economy doing well, voters may feel it is safe to indulge the impulse...
Perhaps he is merely acting out the implicit logic of the 1933 film of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man, of which Paul Verhoeven's new movie is an entirely unacknowledged remake. Both Caine and Claude Rains' Jack Griffin find it easier to attain the ectoplasmic state than to return from it; both become increasingly megalomaniac as a result of the scientific process they embrace. The big difference between the two pictures is attitude. James Whale, who directed the first movie, made a kind of moral comedy of the situation--lots of befuddled English country types doing dialect jokes--but with...