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Nothing provokes a brouhaha in the intellectual circles of the left like a stirring mea culpa from a compatriot who is audacious enough to denounce Communism. What usually happens next is a highbrow equivalent of mud wrestling, as colleagues question the defector's motivation and fire off gratuitous insults. In the eye of the latest tempest, which blew up in response to the suppression of freedom in Poland, is Social Critic Susan Sontag (Styles of Radical Will, On Photography), whose past essays have sung the praises of revolutionary movements from Havana to Hanoi...
...high interest rates--are just now beginning to hit home. Stockman's remarks may have embarassed himself and the president: in that sense, they mark a turning point in the history of an administration. But to the people who have to live with what he's done, Stockman's mea culpas sound as if he's merely trying to rub it in. In that sense, they may well mark a turning point in the way the public perceives not only Ronald Reagan, but politics and politicians as a whole...
Shortly after the government called for new elections, the traditionalists won approval of a law sharply restricting the performance of transplants and of autopsies, which, the Orthodox believe, desecrate the dead. On the day after the passage of the autopsy bill, ultra-Orthodox students from Jerusalem's Mea Shea'arim quarter raided a medical school and forcibly halted an autopsy, heavily damaging medical equipment. When the attackers were arrested, their supporters in Mea Shea'arim went on a rampage, burning garbage cans, breaking water mains and assaulting city employees...
EVERBODY'S got an inside story... Rita Jenrette revealed the lewdnes of the Congressional social scene, Woodward and Armstrong blitzed the justices of the Supreme Court, John Dean sold his mea culpa to the networks for a million dollars. Such books usually break down into one of three types: gripes, boasts or confessions. Few are flexible enough to encompass all of these forms, but those that do can evoke sympathy for the writer and emnity for his oppressors. Charles LeBaron's Gentle Vengeance--An Account of the First Year at Harvard Medical' School is this protean type; complaining and bragging...
...hungry" until the end of this century (Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 Jan. 1981). Ngo Vinh Long may wish to refrain from criticizing the regime. There is no need for such restraint on the part of others, as the regime is doing a fairly good job of crying mea culpa for its appalling economic performance (which, by the way, it is blaming on mismanagement rather than on American hostility and pressures). Meanwhile, the population of Vietnam, North and South, faces the prospect of oppression as well as hunger and poverty until the end of the century under a regime which...