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Dole seems to understand instantly that the only sane response to such nonsense is "Ughhh." So he offers a bit of deflection. "You hear that Imus song?" he says. "Pretty good, huh? Hmmmm...
There is a deeper moral embedded in Colin Powell's decision. It has to do with the sight, unexpected in politics, of a sane man being true to himself--unaffectedly displaying an integrity that has a faraway feel, like Frank Capra movies from the '30s. In the '90s politics and entertainment have completed a merger through media--an unwholesome synthesis that produces a whole circus of falsifications and unrealities, a kind of drug dream. The drug is power, that stimulant and hallucinogen. Even with the highest office in the world apparently available to him ("The first black ."), Powell remained comfortably...
...keeps you sane as a senior tutor to be doing academic work. It's good to keep the intellectual juices flowing," says Mobley, who is a lecturer at the Divinity School and is involved in research on the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...husband was cut down on November 4. "They left you alone in the turret," she told a crowd estimated at over 250,000, as if addressing her husband. "The writing was on the wall and they were silent. It is impossible and forbidden to remain silent anymore. Let the sane, just voice be heard. The silent majority will be silent no more." What was remarkable about the huge gathering on the square now named Kikar Yitzhak Rabin, says McGeary, was that Leah Rabin was the only person who gave a speech. "And she changed her theme. She did not talk...
There is a final piece to the assassin's mind, and it is the piece that puts the gun in his hand. From the statements of Intimates, Amir appeared quite sane. But behind his reticence and behind his ideas lurked powerful impulses that drove him to murder...