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General political apathy, therefore, rather than Republicanism, may be the force taking its toll on Democratic involvement...
...Israel into a cycle of guerrilla attacks and retaliatory raids. In 1956 Ben-Gurion, aware of an Egyptian military buildup, escalated the conflict by storming the Sinai peninsula. The operation was coordinated with a French-British assault on Egypt. To Arabs, this was further proof of Israel as a toll of imperialism. To Israelis, this was Ben-Gurion's way of securing 11 relatively peaceful years...
...commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap, told me in Hanoi in 1990, his principal concern had been victory. When I asked him how long he would have resisted the U.S. onslaught, he thundered, "Twenty years, maybe 100 years--as long as it took to win, regardless of cost." The human toll was horrendous. An estimated 3 million North and South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians died...
...procreate with a woman whom he now disagrees with on nearly everything. "I don't want my kids being brought up by her," Steven says. "I don't want them to have her input." Just knowing that Maureen could one day turn their embryos into children has taken its toll on Steven. "Even dating is difficult," he says. He usually waits until the third or fourth date, he says, before explaining, "I am divorced, but I have these frozen embryos hanging around...
...with TV after her deal is up. In order to work simultaneously in TV and film, she has sometimes had to put in seven-day weeks. "I need to have a life," she says. "I don't have one right now." The long hours seem to have taken a toll on her personal life. She says she's in the process of getting a divorce from her husband Jeff Colt, who is also an actor, though so far a less successful one. Campbell's favorite book is the inspirational philosophical text The Prophet. "There's one passage about relationships...