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...Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber" was chilling. I congratulate TIME for gaining contact with the interviewee. Your story shed valuable light on why some zealots make the choice to carry out horrendous acts of terrorism. Heidi Deifel Salt Lake City, Utah...
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...displays of hard-boiled outlaw tradecraft--but when they're expertly staged and pitilessly lighted by McCarthy, they somehow mean more than in an ordinary thriller. No Country is suffused with Modernist melancholy, a sense that our civilization is dying and all we have ahead of us are endless salt flats of moral and cultural aridity. Sheriff Bell sees people like Chigurh as avatars of things to come. "I aint sure we've seen these people before," he growls. "Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even." Bell's gloominess sometimes verges on kids-these-days curmudgeonliness...
...benevolent, an eerie echo of Kosygin's rebuttal to McNamara at Glassboro. Proponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative charge that the Soviet offensive buildup proves that the U.S.S.R. never really accepted the logic of McNamara's argument and has violated the spirit (as well as the letter) of the SALT agreements...
...realize that unless it brakes and perhaps reverses its buildup, the result may indeed be a new round of the defensive-arms race, one in which the U.S. would, at least initially, have the advantage of superior technology. Gorbachev has been pressing for an updated version of the original SALT deal: restrictions on SDI (which is a latter-day ABM system) in exchange for significant reductions in offensive weaponry, especially the most threatening Soviet systems...