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...existing legal or social system does not collapse because of assault upon it by superior logic. Systems collapse through their own inner rot. Corrupt systems do not collapse, only rotten ones...
...Lebanon and in living up to another long-standing policy: that Israel will do everything in its power to bring its POWs home. Insisted Defense Minister Rabin: "I don't feel any moral right to say to a captured soldier and his family that he should be left to rot in prison because the price is too high." In Lebanon, meantime, the instability precipitated by the war continued to grow. Sporadic fighting has been going on for weeks among several Lebanese factions, and last week bitter clashes erupted between the Shi'ite Amal militia and Palestinians. Nobody seemed to know...
...home gardeners pore over seed catalogs and boast of homegrown salads; she knows that "Nature, far from being on your side, is actively against you, attacking with bugs, molds, rot, cankers, neighboring dogs, raccoons, skunks, porcupines, drought, torrential rains, 'black' frosts, snow heaves, winter- kill. And I cannot think that the satisfaction derived is in the results, however beautiful or tasty . . . The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable...
...which Lindsey by now headed, began working. When the strikers cited 200 building-code violations in one block, the city authorities did nothing, so the strikers got the state to bring the landlord to heel. To get more trash collections, the strikers trucked garbage downtown and left it to rot in the sun. Says Lindsey: "People were taking things into their own hands, and that generated a lot of excitement...
...more is expected of the former. Any liberalism that pits itself against the fear implicit in cruelty's vices has a task set out for itself. Is its power awesome enough to rid us of those vices? Hardly. Yet Shklar insists that it may help keep us from the rot in ourselves that leads us to follow fearful political solutions...