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...course, intensive interdependence also has its downside. The good news for our ancestors was that collectively fending off starvation or saber-toothed tigers forged bonds of a depth moderners can barely imagine. The bad news was that the tigers and the starvation sometimes won. Technology is not without its rewards...
...Religious Freedom, a 20-year-old Christian-advocacy organization. But he has harsh words for some of the scare tactics used by some of the more militant Christian-law groups. "We don't need a Christian ACLU," he says. "The ACLU gets most of its results from bluster, saber rattling and intimidation. Any organization that claims to serve a God of truth should not be about any of that business." McFarland points out that he has been able to resolve many of his cases with a phone call or letter to a local attorney general or school board...
Young crusaders rail against those Asian-Americans who don't share their belief in saber-rattling as the way to realize progress. They use the label "apathetic" as their epithet of choice: "If you don't agree with us, you're just apathetic and unconcerned...
...only alternative is war. This is a simple capitulation to blackmail. The U.S. never threatened war as an alternative to agreement. It threatened economic sanctions to squeeze North Korea into complying now, not someday, with its nuclear-treaty obligations. Pyongyang, economically moribund and starved for oil, then rattled its saber. Clinton caved...
...sweet. It shouldn't be, probably wasn't meant to be, but still is. Sweet to see two rock-'n'-roll stalwarts, still formidable, bearing down hard, unmindful of age or fashion, getting back to basics with a worldly vengeance. For Neil Young that means the kind of raw, saber-toothed rock that has always lurked on the flip side of his folkie heart. For Eric Clapton it amounts to a return to the blues. But there are no elder statesmen to be heard on Young's new album, Sleeps with Angels, or on Clapton's From the Cradle. These...