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...community. The last Iraqi leader who tried to face down al-Sadr, former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, paid a heavy political price - in two general elections following his authorization of U.S. forces to smash the Mahdi Army in the summer of 2004, Allawi has been soundly defeated. That cautionary tale is not lost on al-Maliki...
...pleasant prospect. 'Human kind,' as T.S. Eliot wrote, 'cannot bear very much reality.' TRUTH TELLING MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO COEXIST; A LITTLE LYING MAKES SUCH SOCIETY TOLERABLE. At what point does 'a little' become 'too much'? The nervous boy who cried 'Wolf!' in the admonitory tale told one lie too many and was eaten alive. The irony of this denouement, of course, is that when the boy met his fate, he was, at last, hollering the truth. This story demonstrates the creation of what is sometimes, and euphemistically, called 'a climate of mistrust.' (Translation: Everybody's lying.)" Read...
...Weisskopf's tale of losing a hand in Iraq and his struggle to understand his ordeal was one of the most touching pieces of journalism I have read in many years. In the troubled Middle East, such a story is all too familiar. People are too eager to enter into wars that solve no problems, and the results are devastating. Let's hope that the world's problem solvers can lead us to a different, peaceful path for the future of this planet and its people. Lillian Cohen Kfar Monash, Israel...
...important how, or even if, his three intercut stories become linked. Each of them is, in itself, a powerful tale of fairly ordinary people taken gently down innocent-seeming roads only to find themselves, at the end, in desperate and life-threatening circumstances...
...close.Such was the contradictory tale for the Harvard varsity lightweights in 2006. A perpetual game of musical chairs—resulting in countless lineup changes throughout the spring—added to an already frustrating dual season wrought with inconsistency and underachievement. It wasn’t until June, until the last strokes of the 2006 season, that the Crimson showed how far it had come on a Saturday afternoon in Camden. Far enough to make the 2006 lightweight IRA final the most thrilling in recent memory. And close enough to make 2007 a campaign for the national title even...