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...This is Patrick S. Chung's last column as an undergraduate...
...Duke said, referring to the Freemen's arguments as "legal gobbledy-gook." Duke's rejection of the Freemen lessens the chance that their confrontation with federal agents will have the same impact on the militia movement as the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge, says TIME's Patrick Dawson. Duke, who is held in high esteem by most members of the Patriot movement, engineered the meetings after other intermediaries, including right-wing activist James "Bo" Gritz, had failed to end a standoff that has stretched in to its eighth week. Dawson says that neither Gritz nor Duke were persuaded that...
...author rarely pushes beyond the most obvious implications of his overflowing subject matter. Still, this is a book of many pleasures, not the least of which is the credibly fraught bond between its two protagonists: Patrick Keane, a scholarship student at a New England prep school, and his roommate, the Afrophilic son of a rich and corrupt white Southern family, the Savages (hence the unfortunate title...
McInerney's acuteness as a social critic remains intact (a late '70s dinner party is said to have taken place "just before spaghetti became pasta"), as does his occasionally tart way with language. Impressive too is the quiet way in which Patrick, the narrator, finally comes to terms with his conflicting drives. There is a surprising modesty here at the end of this clamorous and overreaching book, a frank conservatism that is close to daring in a work of contemporary fiction...
...ended. Thousands of people continue to be maimed, for example, by mines put in place long ago in Cambodia, Afghanistan, and more recently in Bosnia and Croatia. "This is a failure of U.S. leadership but it will not stop the international effort to ban these weapons," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who had lobbied Clinton on behalf of the ban. An international ban on land mines was rejected at a conference in Geneva earlier this month. Thompson says the refusal by the United States to unilaterally ban anti-personnel mines will make it more difficult to achieve a worldwide agreement...