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...pathological ferocity of revenge, Americans might want to administer a little of what psychologists call negative the when the time is right, something like the message that a hot stove delivers to someone who tries to sit on it. Both sides should remember, if they can, the Persian prov erb: "Blood cannot be washed away with blood." Revenge has its undeniable satisfactions. It is a primal scream that shatters glass. But revenge is not an intelligent basis for a foreign policy. This century has already fulfilled its quota of smoke and rage and survivors, gray with bomb dust, staggering around...
...polarization was reflected in the province-by-province tallies. The Liberals held their own in the impoverished prov inces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. In Quebec, Trudeau easily recaptured his home riding (district) in Montreal, and the Liberals won a smashing victory. A stunning 61.9% of the popular vote and 67 of the province's 75 parliamentary seats fell into Liberal hands...
Meteoric Rise. Chou's successor has had a relatively meteoric rise. He is a native of Shansi province in northern China, where he joined the Communist Party. Hua went to Hunan prov ince as a minor party official about the time the Communists came to power in 1949. In the early 1950s, after gaining a reputation as an expert in agriculture, he was made party secretary in Mao's home county of Hsiang-t'an. Hua achieved brief nationwide notice by writing an article for Study magazine, the party's theoretical journal, on the changing class...
...disciple families, "no" is said as lovingly as "yes." The children learn to wait; the parents refuse to buy them this or that until they prov e themselves mature enough to use it wisely. Allowances are given not as a dole, but to train children in budgeting necessary expenses. Little girls are not pushed into premature dating; the parents couldn't care less that "everybody else does it." Girls are not given contraceptives because sex is not put in a bag; the girls first want to become women, and are secure enough not to have to prove themselves...
...Somalis argue that much of Kenya's eastern and northeastern prov inces, where the Ogaden and other Somali tribes have traditionally grazed their cattle, is really part of Somalia...