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...right to local government, the right to speak our language and have it taught in our schools." The rebel leader's bodyguard lounged around in the pink-and-beige interior, staring out through floor-to-ceiling windows at the snowy mountains glowing pink in the sunset. For Barzani, the rapid ouster of the regime from Kurdistan was vindication for his father Mustafa, who died in exile in 1979 after his own uprising against Baghdad failed. "We were all taken by surprise at the swiftness of our victory," Barzani acknowledged...
...pursuit of a simpler life with deeper meaning is a major shift in America's private agenda. "This is a rapid and extremely powerful movement," says Ross Goldstein, a San Francisco psychologist and market researcher. "I'm impressed by how deep it goes into the fabric of this country." Says noted theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago: "We are all warned against thinking in terms of trends that correspond with decades, but this one is a cinch. I think that people are going to look back at today as a hinge period in the country's history." Some...
...Stalinism -- the other horror from our past -- the danger that it might return is real but not unavoidable. Conservatives argue that the rapid decline in the standard of living, the growing crime rate, the spread of ethnic violence and the deterioration of public morale justify Stalinist practices as a means of restoring social stability and maintaining the integrity of the country. But it will be difficult for them to turn back the clock. Too much of their program is too deeply compromised. Soviet society is fed up with ideological junk food. The one-party political system has been shattered...
Duffy gives credit for at least part of his rapid political climb to Gov. William F. Weld '66 whose administration has been described as one of the most strongly supportive of the gay-rights movement in the nation...
...what of Abedi, the genius behind it all? His heart attack and a later heart transplant stopped his direct control of B.C.C.I. in 1988, which proved disastrous for the bank. Already in trouble from too rapid expansion, and dependent on constantly increasing deposits to keep the cooked books from revealing the growing problems, B.C.C.I. could not hold together without Abedi -- as the audit released last year revealed. He resigned officially from the bank last year, and is living in semiretirement in Karachi. Authorities in several countries would surely like to get their hands on him. His connections with Pakistan...