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...legitimize your crimes, as most notoriously happened in Germany in the early 1930s. The governments and diplomats of the world will talk to you in the vain belief that because you claim to be a political organization, this somehow means you are reasonable people. Meanwhile, you can abuse, torture, murder and rob the nation's people at will, as has happened on so many occasions in the past century. Is morality applicable only on a small scale? We get the politicians we deserve, goes the saying. But do the gentle, life-revering Buddhists of Burma and Tibet deserve the thugs...
...back seized up as it never had before. I had to crawl out of the studio and have other people put my shoes back on for me while I stood there crying. I am still recovering. One physical therapist told me that many of the bending poses are murder on the disks. No more yoga for me. I'll stick with Pilates. Connie McDougall, Seattle...
...Book, a guide for quick, easy meals. It became a staple of baby boomers' kitchens, and she followed up with popular sequels about housekeeping and etiquette. Her beef stew would "cook happily all by itself," she once wrote, on "days when you're en negligee, en bed with a murder story and a box of bonbons...
...Updike--of his generation, has written a novel about superhero comics; a fantasy tale; a mystery starring an old man who may or may not be Sherlock Holmes; and a pulp crime book set in an alternate time. (That last would be The Yiddish Policemen's Union, about a murder in a what-if world where Alaska becomes a homeland for the Jews, or as they're called there, "the frozen Chosen.") Chabon is still a literary novelist, but he's having a hot, star-crossed flirtation with the "popular" genres. He riffs on them, toys with them, steals their...
...Official statistics show that 52 people are murdered every day in South Africa - an annual murder rate of 43.1 per 100,000 people. The U.S., by comparison, has an annual murder rate of 5.7 per 100,000 people. Added to that each year are 200,000 robberies, 55,000 rapes, and half a million cases of assault, serious assault and attempted murder...