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...West Bank at least partly because of a belief that it needed the territory for defense against neighboring states that have never recognized its right to exist and often threatened to destroy "the Zionist entity." No one, not even Ayatullah Khomeini, has ever proposed to wipe Iraq off the map. Nor can Iraq conceivably claim that it needs Kuwaiti ( territory for defense. It fought off Iranian assaults quite effectively throughout eight years of war without making any use of Kuwaiti soil...
Since the publication of that essay -- or editorial or sermon -- the phrase has echoed down the decades. It was often questioned, ridiculed, attacked. When the Soviet Union emerged as a nuclear power, when communism spread across the map, when the U.S. was ignominiously defeated in Vietnam, many people decided that it could not really be the American Century, after all. But it was. The remaining decade is not likely to change that...
...incidence of adultery laws, as well as statutes prohibiting fornication (two unmarried people having sex), traces a hig-gledy-piggledy pattern across the national map. Adultery is still illegal in about half the 50 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Michigan; enforcement of the strictures is normally a dead letter. But since there is no organized constituency to demand their repeal, the prohibitions remain as bludgeons to be picked up in marital brawls. Says Ronald Allen, a professor of law at Northwestern University: "Who wants to come out in public in favor of adultery?" Primarily, the American Civil Liberties Union...
Atlanta's lack of Cambridge-style frenzy does not mean it is a sleepy, podunk town. With a rejuvenated down-town, sprawling suburbs, rapid commercial growth and substantial improvements in infrastructure, Atlanta truly deserves its newfound spot on the Map of Important Places. Thanks in large part to Atlanta, the vocal twang once associated exclusively with Aunt Bea and Opie no longer automatically marks one as the product of a cultural backwater...
Again, you linger too long over the choices and the call is cut off. The last words you hear before heading off to find a map to look for Van Serg are Thank you for using HUN--the network that makes it even easier never to talk to real people...