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These themes have been treated elsewhere—most flamboyantly, by Salman Rushdie in East, West and The Satanic Verses. In Naipaul’s younger days, he had a sense of humor as sharp as Rushdie’s, but always muted by wry restraint. By now this restraint has entirely choked away the humor in Naipaul’s fiction, as well as much of the dark gravity that made Naipaul’s post-comic fiction so attractive. The final section, with its political uncertainty and sense of alienation, faintly resembles a low-key A Bend...
...aboard intercontinental ballistic missiles targeted on the U.S. to infect an entire city, a tactic Saddam Hussein is thought to have tried to copy on a more modest scale with rocket-borne smallpox "bombs" that could hit targets up to 70 miles away. He never used them. Not that restraint has always been practiced. During World War II, Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas on Chinese and Soviet targets, while Britain plotted to kill German cattle with anthrax...
...public anger that when Vajpayee declared that he would not meet Musharraf in New York City as originally scheduled, he was applauded. And India's Defense Minister George Fernandes marked his re-induction to office with so-called punitive firing on Pakistani border posts despite U.S. calls for restraint. From an Indian perspective, the U.S. strikes on Afghanistan may have moral legitimacy, but the U.S. errs by not extending that legitimacy to others who face identical predicaments...
...Administration officials will settle for less if they can get it. Last week's thundering B-52 raids emboldened Northern Alliance soldiers, who a week earlier had despaired of America's inexplicable restraint. General Abdul Nasir, a senior Alliance officer based near Kabul, told Time that a strike last Wednesday took out three Taliban tanks, 15 trucks and two artillery pieces. "Compared to bombing in earlier days, these strikes were particularly effective," says Nasir. "It's clear the enemy took heavy casualties." Other Alliance commanders said the B-52 strikes in their areas had been far less accurate and deadly...
...racist” is unjustified, unsubstantiated and inappropriate. To suggest, given the context of the event and the topic of the evening, that the HRC “is guilty of bringing hate to Harvard” is ridiculous, unless one regards protection of the unborn, judicial restraint and color-blindness as hateful. Indeed, one of the central themes of the evening was the constitutionality of race-based discrimination, and Coulter spoke out against what many consider a particularly pernicious form of racism...