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...Kashmir imbroglio continues to threaten peace in South Asia. But after two full-scale wars in 1948 and 1965, unending artillery duels, annual clashes on the world's highest glacier, a two-month battle for a row of Himalayan peaks at Kargil in 1999?not to mention a tragic 12-year insurgency within Kashmir?the leaders of India and Pakistan appear interested in ending the hostilities. At least, they are looking for ways to do so. A peace process is beginning...
...occasionally angry at the opacity of the young Bergman (played with tight, menacing restraint by Krister Henriksson), she's still amazed at how their self-absorption, matched by the self-destructive, almost 19th century romanticism of her conductor-husband (Thomas Hanzon), leads from the merely regrettable to the definitively tragic...
...side and a dark side. It was said that the bright prince, John Kennedy, was Clinton's hero. Clinton is also the dark prince, Richard Nixon. Kennedy died and stayed dead. Nixon was the real Comeback Kid. Add a touch of Lyndon Johnson to Clinton's character - not the tragic, Lear-like LBJ, but the shrewd cornpone conniver, the genius politician - and finish the picture off with a quantity of Flem Snopes. There you have him, the Kingfish from Hot Springs, as gaudy and complicated as Americans...
...Call me picky, but breathing second-hand smoke, unfair dairy pricing, and not being able to mime (or lap dance), though they are all tragic, tragic injustices, are not quite as bad as the systematic segregation of public transportation based on skin color. And while fighting for your right to lap dance and mime and breathe just the regular pollution and not the added fumes of cigarette smokers is a very fine, very American idea, it is not quite as brave as being a middle-aged black woman in Alabama in 1955 telling a white man she's not giving...
...That one accident sparked a great amount of concern here in our office," McCready says. "With a poignant, tragic occurrence like that, it opens people's minds about doing something, but this is one issue which the city and University are always concerned with...