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...battleground between the divine and the diabolical, the outcome very much in doubt: "La prima luce," Dante's light of creation, the brilliant ignition of God, against the satanic negation, the candle snuffer. Those uncomfortable with the idea of evil mean this: You don't say that the shadow has the same stature as the light. If you speak of the Dark Lord, of the "dark side of Sinai," do you foolishly empower darkness...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was reminiscing about her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, some years ago. "People say he was like the banyan tree: nothing and nobody grew in his shadow," she mused. "They are wrong. He was like the sun, and let everything and everybody grow -- even the weeds, let us be honest." It was vintage Indira, who would have denied there was a Nehru dynasty even as she came to symbolize...
...foreign bank convicted of money laundering. Nor was that the only cloud hovering over this Democratic Olympus. Alan Cranston, criticized by the Senate ethics committee for his shady dealings in the savings and loan scandal, showed up at the book party. So did Ted Kennedy, wrapped in the shadow of the Palm Beach sex scandal...
...defined it under Reagan and would not upstage or challenge him. The choice of a running mate always poses a trade-off between finding a person competent to step in if the President becomes incapacitated and one who is self-effacing enough to stand uncomplainingly in the President's shadow. In choosing Quayle, Bush clearly gave more importance to the latter than to the former...
...higher profile, a chance to prove to Americans that he is more than just a pretty face. That is unlikely for now. Quayle, Bush predicted just before his Inauguration, would find "the same kind of constraint and the same kind of fulfillment" he experienced while laboring in Reagan's shadow. Those conditions may help Bush get re-elected while Quayle is on the ticket. But they won't help Quayle convince a skeptical public that he is qualified to be President...