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Understanding Cambodia has always seemed like trying to put together a three-dimensional jigsaw of morality, politics and geography. Some pieces are missing, some are scuffed and torn beyond recognition, some bent completely out of shape; a few fit nowhere at all. The picture appears to show a maze through which the country has been stalked by successive monsters: a coup followed by brutal civil war, careless U.S. policies, strategic bombing, a Marxist revolution so bloody that it came to be called autogenocide, international and regional power politics, liberation and occupation by a hated neighbor, famine, decay and renewed civil...
...asylum closer to that of the ruling center- right coalition. The decision to push for a constitutional amendment to stem the influx of foreigners is based on the belief that reducing the number of asylum seekers will put a firebreak in the path of the xenophobic violence that has torn through the country this year. Moreover, the delegates reasoned, under their plan the truly persecuted would not be turned away...
...There are risks for both Syria and Israel. In any agreement we have to give tangibles; we get paper in return. Agreements on paper can be torn to pieces; % tangibles have to be taken by force. When I say tangibles, I mean territory. We live in a region in which international agreements are not based on the Bible or the Koran. Two years ago, Iraq invaded, occupied and annexed Kuwait, in flagrant violation of inter-Arab agreements. If it can happen between two Arab countries, what is to stop it from happening between Arabs and Israel...
...murder, Mark was still terrified. "Oh, God," he said to himself, "what am I doing here! Dad's going to kill me!" Mark was convicted of homicide as a juvenile but was sentenced to six months probation. Like others who have suffered the same ordeal, he remains torn by his immense relief, guilt, grief, even love. "It may sound sick, but I did love him," says Mark. "I still love him. I mean, he was my father...
...squirmed back out into the dance room past a couple performing That Dance They Had to Cut From "Lambada!" to Maintain Its R Rating, only to discover that the speakers in the drawing/keg room were now dead. I traced the wires back toward the DJ room, looking for a torn connection, which I found beneath two very passionately involved people. "Excuse me, you're standing on the wires," I said. "Mmmph," they said, as I gently shoved them into a darker corner of the room. "Hey, that girl is in my Chem class," my roommate volunteered. "She's very nice...