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...fears that divide the British province's Protestant majority and its Roman Catholic minority. Because so many attempts to break the deadly cycle of attack and revenge have ended in failure, it is a wonder that political leaders still have the courage to try again, when even the merest hint of change in the status quo brings threats of more bloodshed from extremists on both sides...
...what is it exactly? For some interesting answers, turn to John Leland's Hip: The History (Ecco; 405 pages), a book that examines how an underground language of American slaves became the lingua francafor cooler-than-thou folk everywhere, in the process evolving from hard-earned mentality to merest merchandise option...
...victim. ?He listens, that?s his trick,? he says of Brandt. The Chancellor, impersonated by Roger Allam (the original Javert in the musical ?Les Miserables?) with a puffed-out chest that shows awareness of his charismatic statesmanship, relishes danger, even the threat of a spy in his bosom: ?The merest possibility that Gunther is not what he seems makes him infinitely more tolerable...
...know" He's on the side of justice--and we define what justice is. Indeed, we can toss around words like justice and evil with impunity, send off mighty armies to "serve the cause of justice" in other lands and be so sure of our righteousness that the merest act of penitence--an apology for an atrocity--becomes a presidential crisis. "This does not represent the America that I know," Bush said of the torturers, as if U.S. soldiers were exempt from the temptations of absolute power that have plagued occupying armies from the beginning of time...
...know" He's on the side of justice-and we define what justice is. Indeed, we can toss around words like justice and evil with impunity, send off mighty armies to "serve the cause of justice" in other lands and be so sure of our righteousness that the merest act of penitence-an apology for an atrocity-becomes a presidential crisis. "This is not the America I know," Bush said of the torturers, as if U.S. soldiers were exempt from the temptations of absolute power that have plagued occupying armies from the beginning of time...