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...fight only aggressors like North Korea, Iran or Iraq, as the Pentagon's conventional strategy suggests? Those are the least likely contingencies: cross-border invasions and highly visible aggression are increasingly rare. Civil wars, ethnic violence and disintegrating states now produce most of the bloodshed and agony that shock viewers on the evening news programs. Will America duck the new, more common battles? The answers that emerge from the Bosnia debate are likely to set precedents that will channel America's course for years to come...
...with shock and dismay that I discovered the University's plans to destroy the Freshmen Union's Great Hall. Harvard's administrators and planners claim that since the Union is being moved, the 90-foot-long hall--which has hardwood paneling, an extravagant plaster ceiling, and stone fireplaces, and which has served as a gathering place for Harvard students for 100 years--is expendable. They want to rip out the hall's decoration and subdivide it into offices. Before this happens we can only hope that the administration comes to its senses. The hall should be preserved not only became...
Arafat: As if it is one year, not one week. I lost my partner. The man paid with his life for the peace of the brave. It was a big shock for me, a big shock. First there were feelings for him as a man. The moment we signed [the peace agreement] we became more than friends. I used to phone him. We had two "hot lines." One through the phone, and one through a person appointed to be a special channel. That person would come and go, by day or night...
Despite this acknowledgment of the shock value of some of his plays, Durang was initially surprised by the negative reaction of some groups to his work. "When my plays would offend people I was sort of surprised. It started out being people in my parents' generation, so I would say, oh, well, that's grown ups. And now I am a grown up. And some people are still bothered by my plays. And I guess is just a question of different tastes...
...first political assassination in the nation's short history left Israelis in utter shock. First there was the prospect of a Jew killing a Jew. In a land where every Jewish life is counted precious, there could be no greater horror. And when the victim was also the Prime Minister whose brave policies of peace have torn the populace in two, the act seemed almost literally unthinkable. The assassin had apparently been driven by the simplistic idea that if he could kill this one man, he could kill the whole process of peace. The true tragedy would...