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Maybe it is not a work of literature at all, but the supreme archetype of human existence which we somehow recognize when we come across it because it was already written in our minds and just never set down...
Even if inspectors were somehow freed from Iraqi constraints, hunting weapons is painstaking work. The U.N. says that if allowed to return, its inspection team would need a year to document the full range of Saddam's arsenal. That's too long for Administration hard-liners, who fear that Iraq could use U.N. monitors as shields against a military strike, as Serb forces did during the Balkan wars. There's also the problem of what happens once the inspectors finish their work. There's every reason to believe that, if left in power, Saddam would become more determined to obtain...
...course, “democracy” did lose something that day—the luster of this ideal was somehow dulled, and Americans were incensed. Our government has responded in its own institutional way, stripping intelligence of its Cold War accoutrements, demanding redress between the riven CIA and FBI, and creating a new Department of Homeland Security...
...prepared to give up some liberties for the sake of safety, but those few liberties have turned out to be the most sacred. American citizens have been arrested and held in isolation by the government as “enemy combatants,” a legal fiction that has somehow trumped the Constitution. Other Americans have been singled out for scrutiny solely because of their ethnic background. Chief Justice William Rehnquist and his coterie of activist justices just do not care as long as states’ rights are upheld. At the nation’s leading university, a commencement...
...Ishihara is holding his fire. "I gave (the bank's officials) a list of conditions to meet," he says. "Based on whether they meet those, I have to reconsider the city's ties to Mizuho." It is tempting to assume Japan's banks will somehow muddle through once again. Still, it is hard to exaggerate their talent for shooting themselves in the foot...