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...County's Anderson Valley, a corridor 30 miles long that takes the Navarro River northwest to the Pacific. The southern half looks like Scotland: steep hills, lush fields dotted with sheep and shacks with wood smoke coming out of the chimneys. The valley is beautiful and silent. Two thousand people in maybe 150 square miles. Having few of the distractions of urban life, they see death clearly and have no urge to escape it. All they ask is a little sex, a little booze and a little humor in the meantime...
...hangings in Baghdad were a bitter dramatization of the plight of the many thousand Jews who still live in the Arab world, and Israel opened a determined publicity and diplomatic campaign designed to protect them. They are among the remnants of the great Diaspora-the dispersal of the Jews from Jerusalem after the conquest of their capital by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. Down through the centuries, Jews and Arabs got along with one another reasonably well; though Jews generally were treated as second-class citizens, they were respected as "people of the Book." They prospered as traders...
...among the court's libertarians, strongly opposed the decision. Fortas argued that the FBI agent's affidavit and the informant's word together were sufficient to establish "probable cause." From the bench, Black angrily attacked his colleagues for trying to supervise local magistrates "from a thousand miles away." Justice Byron White said that he was voting with the majority to avoid a deadlocked court (Justice Thurgood Marshall had abstained). Declaring himself confused by the majority opinion, White called for "fullscale reconsideration" of the precedents for it. White's proposal may be seconded by the court...
Theodore Roosevelt, though paternally of Dutch descent, was Celtic on his mother's side of the house (Bulloch), and F.D.R. was descended from the Clan Livingstone of Argyllshire. Be careful, too, in classifying Senator Edmund Muskie as Polish; several thousand Celts settled his country many centuries ago! John D. Rockefeller is Celtic through the Davison branch. True, Bundy, Diller, Coffin, are Wasps, but not McCloy and Wallace...
...blocks away, in the teeming public square known as Djemaa el Fna, or Assembly of the Dead, robed Berber men and veiled women chew on fried locusts while they watch snake charmers toy with defanged black cobras, or listen to interminable tales of storytellers perpetuating the tradition of the Thousand and One Nights. In Fez, Morocco's ancient center of Islamic culture, the sleek, European-style Merinides Hotel shares a hilltop with the tombs of 14th century sultans. Outside the cities, cars on superhighways rocket past plodding camel caravans and occasional trucks...