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...surfaced two weeks ago on the Senate floor, when only 16 Republicans voted to support the NATO air strikes. "To say Republicans are uneasy about this is an understatement," says a top G.O.P. official on Capitol Hill. "This is a party that likes to think of itself as the mirror image of those antiwar protesters who undermined those American boys in Vietnam. But because the situation is so volatile and the President hasn't laid out an endgame, it's hard to react...
These people mirror Bush, his backers say. Like them, he trusts his gut, takes risks and casts a wide net for advice. He'll need all he can get, because when he finally breaks his policy silence, he'll have to make the case for evicting a party that might as well change its name to Dow 10,000. "This has been the cotton-candy decade," says Bush's chief economic adviser, Larry Lindsey, taste-testing a theme last week. "It's mostly spin, all sweet and no sweat. Yes, people are happy, but...we've let Social Security stagnate...
Science fiction is a fun-house mirror for a society warped by raging technological advance. Science fiction doesn't want or need to make much sense. It seeks astonishment, terror, wonder, ecstasy and dread. It is spectacular and mythic, an oxygen tent for society's daydreams. Science fiction cordially ignores many vital technologies, such as, say, garbage recycling. Recycling is hugely important, but it has zero science-fictional thrill...
...fact, these two social hubs seem to mirror stereotyped differences between students living on the river and the Quad. The Quad Houses are seen as more insular and more comfortable than River cousins. Likewise, while Grafton Street can get a bit impersonal, Lee says at Temple Bar, "the atmosphere is more conversational and friendly... with more people from the neighborhood." This mature congregation, molded into leather-boothed intimacy and cushioned by chenille pillow comfort, makes for a less frenzied, mellower mood...
...capital, Phnom Penh. There, during the sporadic outbursts of fighting that threaten his rule, he retreats to his emergency war room, a small building with dark glass windows and aerials on the roof. Inside is a small bedroom. "You see this?" he asks, pointing to a closet with a mirror on the front. "Inside, there is a secret trapdoor into the basement. When you are a soldier, you have to know the ways of escape." He regrets he cannot go to restaurants; he fears assassination too much. Last year an attempt was made on his life in a northern town...