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...admitting that she had made a mistake. Bruce Weinstein New York City I was outraged by Stewart's remark that "there [are] many other people that have gone to prison. Look at Nelson Mandela." How dare she even hint at any parallels between her jail sentence and Mandela's ordeal. Her upcoming prison time has nothing at all to do with the 27 years Mandela spent locked up under inhumane conditions. Stewart is going to prison because she lied about a transaction aimed at making her even richer. Mandela risked his life and was imprisoned because he fought against apartheid...
BAGHDAD BLUES For one typical family, each day is an ordeal marked by hardship and the terrifying threat of violence...
...MIDDLE EAST IRAQ: For a typical Baghdad family, each day is a terrifying ordeal...
...situation more tenuous. Beijing may choose to keep him locked up indefinitely-or until he is intimidated into an admission of incorrect thinking. So far, he is not backing down. "His position on the probity of his opinions hasn't changed," says one hospital colleague. But after this ordeal, Jiang may no longer feel safe making those opinions public...
Conviction told him that the proper way to deal with this endless, enervating, anxiety-ridden ordeal was not settling for stability but going for victory. Courage allowed him to weather the incessant, at times almost universal, attacks on him for the radical means he chose to win it: the military buildup; nuclear deployments in Europe; the Reagan doctrine of overt support for anticommunist resistance movements everywhere, including Nicaragua; and the piece de resistance, strategic missile defenses, derisively dubbed Star Wars by scandalized opponents. Within eight years, an overmatched, overwhelmed, overstretched Soviet Union was ready for surrender, the historically breathtaking, total...