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...weaponry now? What about the way he set fire to the oil wells in 1991 when his army was retreating from Kuwait? Are these the acts of a man to be trusted? A man like Saddam would drag his own country and people down with him rather than capitulate. PHILIP ROE York, England...
...moral arguments against it if it turned out to be a safe. He even allowed that something good might be said for the atomic bomb: ?Maybe MAD (mutually assured destruction) did indeed prevent great wars between East and West.? So, asked his interlocutor TIME senior sciences editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, ?your line is that the glass is half full?? ?That?s right,? Ridley replied...
...huge epic poems and verse diatribes were pouring forth - more than ninety in the 1790s alone. Slavery was taken on by the first generation of self-consciously American poets, among them Joel Barlow, David Humphreys, Timothy Dwight, and Philip Freneau, all of whom saw it as anathema to America's future. In 1778 Barlow predicted that with American independence, "Afric's unhappy children, now no more / Shall feel the cruel chains they felt before." A few years later Freneau felt haunted by the continuing presence of slaves: "Half hell is in their song / And from the silent thought? - 'You have...
...Standing in front of a topographical wall map, he points to the densely wrinkled contours along the provincial border south of the lake. "It's difficult getting human intelligence out of there, and we're not picking up radio transmissions. It's a black hole." Not just for the Philip-pines, but increasingly for the rest of Southeast Asia, as well...
...city and misty mountains. Or you can side-step the central struggle of Tarquin and Lucretia and examine the rapist's brocade vest, an illusion created by indicating the pattern in some areas then scribbling in others. Lucretia's Violation is safely fictional, but the image, painted for Philip II of Spain, is still shocking. Jaffé sees no conflict between such scenes and Christian works, instead tracing echoes between the despairing gestures of Lucretia and St. Lawrence, who allegedly was roasted to death for his religious beliefs. He even parallels Lucretia's cringing attitude with Christ tormented by Pilate...