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...Patrick sees it now, he has a choice. "There's no mortal blow here. It's really a question of whether I react or I respond," he told TIME. "One is steeped in self-appraisal and maturity, and one is kind of superficial and temporary. I'm responding; I'm not reacting." He left the campaign committee, shook up his staff and brought back trusted family political advisers. He became a different kind of Congressman--one who acknowledged some frailties that made him seem more human, less like a Kennedy fund-raising machine. Having gone public with the fact that...
...course Hamas will feel pressure to react. At the same time, the Israelis have certainly caused problems for Hamas over the past couple of years by killing a number of their top bomb makers. Now they're forced to rely on more inexperienced bomb makers. Also, the Israelis say, their action can't be criticized on the grounds that it would increase the motivation for terrorist attacks, because that motivation is already at 100 percent. It couldn't be higher. So they believe that by bombing these guys, they've stopped seven major terror attacks. Whether that proves true remains...
...just as suddenly for us as for him, a thought: "I see now that I create my own unhappiness." A dog looks at us through the front window. "The things that happen to me aren't in themselves good or bad..." The dog leaves. "It's the way I react to them that makes them good or bad..." A moment of astonishing clarity for a boy and for book, told in the simplest context, where it stands...
...More violence. Violence breeds violence. When the Israelis fire tank bombs at the Palestinians, the Palestinian have to respond. When the Palestinian kill an Israeli citizen, the Israeli army has to react - it's their job to protect their citizens. People are squeezed in a situation where everybody is blaming the other, and there's no space for one side to understand the other. Not to agree - to understand...
...quietly encourages the idea of a military build-up because that would enable the U.S. to shift some of its hardware and staff elsewhere. The rest of Asia, particularly China, would react differently. Koizumi has already perturbed neighbors by revealing a conservative nationalist streak. He has said he'll visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, a war memorial where veterans, including some convicted war criminals, are entombed. He has also refused to stop the publication of textbooks that whitewash Japan's aggression in World...