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...center of the hard-line ethic is a strong belief that all conflicts can fit neatly into the war between Us and Them, freedom and tyranny, good and evil. The hard-liners believe that U.S. foreign policy proceeds from straightforward choices between absolutes: trust the nations that work with you; treat everyone else as a potential adversary. The hard-liners' hero is Ronald Reagan, who labeled the former Soviet Union the "evil empire." Reagan, however, rarely let his rhetoric get in the way of pragmatic foreign policy. And Bush is now showing signs of similar flexibility...
...likes of such special works as "Stripburek: Comics from the Other Europe," (Stripburger; 216pp.; $17.95) a collection of Eastern European comix imported by Top Shelf. Produced by the same group that did a strange and wonderful box of mini-comix last year (see TIME.comix review), "Stripburek" is a more straightforward collection of over fifty black and white works translated into English. Comix from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the Ukraine and Yugoslavia are all here...
...seems, then, that Freud’s idea about jokes is eminently applicable to the YDN’s April Fools gesture, which marks not so much an innovation in content, but rather one in form; an ironical joke has been substituted for what had already been stated in straightforward editorial—and news—form several months earlier...
...Answering Questions About the Attacks on America" (Viking Children's Books; August 5; hardcover and paperback), for young people ages 12 and up. According to his publisher, the book will be "written on a level that sixth graders and up can easily comprehend and filled with pictures, maps, and straightforward explanations. This is the book that will enable young people to understand both the events of 9/11 and the history leading...
...book is better taken as an elusive study of reality through dreams-nine of them, to be almost precise-than a straightforward coming-of-age tale. To set the chimerical tone, Mitchell employs an intriguing narrative technique: when Miyake interacts with other characters, we "hear" the soliloquies of his thoughts, as well as the spoken dialogue. And every once in a while, the two seem to blend together, leaving the reader guessing for pages...