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...idea of Mother's Day vibrates with a residual impulse to canonize mothers, even though a feminist might say that the habit of doing so ought to vanish, unlamented, when the conditions producing wifely and motherly martyrdom (Hannah Nixon's or Rebekah Johnson's, for example) also recede. It can only be a good thing for women - right? - when they are not called upon to be saints in the old style of forbearance and abnegation, asked to lead a life that would wither a woman like Rebekah Johnson and leave her more embittered than her children, the once-a-year...
Civil war, drought, famine, invasion and tyranny have been tramping back and forth across the weary soil of this miserable nation for so long that the prospects of its recovery, even if the Taliban were to vanish tomorrow, are distant at best. And now the Taliban have outraged world opinion with yet another bizarre and fanatic provocation. The leading Taliban mullah, Mohammed Omar, declared that since the Koran forbade the worship of idols, all idols in the country (meaning, for the most part, Buddhist sculpture made before the arrival of the Muslims in the 8th century) were to be destroyed...
...that Blair is keen to exploit as he gears up for a spring election. Like the New Democrats, New Labourites are worried that their co-opting of many conservative themes has offered their constituency very little enticement. Sure, Blair has an easy lead in the polls, but that could vanish if turnout is low, since the Tory base is as angry as Labour's is indifferent. So just as Al Gore ran hard to his left in last year's presidential campaign, so Blair is desperate to galvanize working-class supporters. A good bashing of the aristocracy is just what...
...produce. "George Bush can have as many balloon drops as he wants," said Al Gore's lieutenant Ron Klain, "but there's no one in this country who believes the election is over before the votes are counted." But Republicans disagreed. "The American people's tolerance is about to vanish," said Representative J. C. Watts Jr. "The Democrats keep trying to hijack the result, but Governor Bush is still the winner. I hope Al Gore will have the integrity to put the country first and lose graciously...
...knows? Evil flourishes at moments like these. The air is filled with vicious dreams. Palestinians have a recurring dream that Israel will vanish; a lot of Israelis reciprocate the fantasy. It is time for everyone to wake up, before this thing hurtles off a cliff...