Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington is a cesspool of cronyism, funny cash flow and cover-ups. Judging from the small flood of incidents that came to light recently, they have a point. Even as Ross Perot is gearing up his third party, which he promises will make Beltway corruption a focus of collective rage, the capital was suffering a wealth of embarrassments last week. Says Charles Lewis, head of the watchdog Center for Public Integrity: "Every once in a while these seemingly bright Washington power people screw up, and we get a glimpse of how the town really works...
Everyone has agreed on a roughly 49-51 split of Bosnia's land between the Serb entity and the federation. But fierce disputes rage about who gets which specific pieces of territory. The width of a strip of land called the Posavina Corridor, which connects Serbia with the Bosnian Serbs, is the most contentious of these quarrels...
...consolidating support among the black community without looking at the common grounds shared by everyone. In a recent piece by Cornel West for the New York Times, West writes, "For most whites, the Million Man March...can only worsen race matters. For them, he [Farrakhan] not only embodies black rage but also black hatred and contempt for whites." Exactly what is the black community mad about? There has never been a time in American history when all members of the black race have had opportunities before them...
Instead, this rage merely seethes and strikes out when provoked in the slightest way. It has proved to be a potent political force. It galvanized hundreds of thousands of black people to march on Washington and incited many to riot when one of their race was treated unjustly. This resentment simply allows the black community to remain steeped in a bad temper about the state of the country. The politics of revenge is easily given over to conspiracy theories and ideas among members of the black community that "the white man" is trying to oppress them...
...HUMAN CONDITIONS--love, rage, fear, madness and the rest of the ragbag--the hardest for an actor or a writer of fiction to counterfeit is genius. Merely reminding us won't work, because we haven't been there. Is genius simply a powerful flow of really good ideas? Doesn't help; we don't know where even moderately good ideas come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over...