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...precise nature of his depression can be divined from his back catalog, which still sells briskly and is full of hopelessness (Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now), tentative homoeroticism (Hand in Glove) and rage at the hypocrisy of authority figures (Margaret on the Guillotine). At 45, Morrissey--his seldom used first name is Steven--has not changed his character; he remains sensitive and defiant, with a lacerating wit. But he has changed his life. In 1998 he left his native England for Los Angeles, where he lives in a house built for Clark Gable. He volunteers for animal-rights charities...
...make him masturbate in front of a mocking female captor, or put him on a leash or pretend you are going to electrocute him. But I did have to explain that the bad guys--this time--were seven U.S. soldiers, of whom it might be said that seldom has such harm been done to so many...
...median age of the American people is approximately 36 years, and the typical U.S. history course required of high school students seldom reaches World War II. When such a course does reach the present time, the past 70 years are fleetingly covered. More than half of our citizens have not lived or been well-taught about the Plessy years. They can’t appreciate the massive social, psychological and economic damage caused by that policy and how it propagates into our own time. Millions of its victims and perpetrators are still alive and either bear scars or enjoy benefits...
...goes down well at home. Forget the lessons of history; this is America, exceptional, somehow immune. In the end, though every nation that has ever claimed stewardship over another's destiny (including the United States in Vietnam) has claimed the mantle of virtue, usually divinely ordained. The other side seldom saw it that...
...Japan and Germany are often cited as the model of benign selfless occupation, but they may actually have been the exception. In both instances, their populations were under no illusions that their own leaders had started disastrous wars. Elsewhere, however, the occupier's presumption of virtue is seldom affirmed by the occupied. And Iraq has proved no different. However extensive the goodwill toward the Americans for getting rid of Saddam, it has steadily eroded over the past year. The prison abuse photographs outraged Iraqis, but may not have surprised them as much as the Americans. Nor are Iraqis impressed...