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Ireland is a deceptively beautiful place, soft and green, north and south. Its people, north and south, are deceptively kind and civil and wise. Deceptive, because in the hills and valleys of this island, and among its tribes and clans, vicious hatred and ugly violence have raged for centuries, inflicting unending death and suffering that have come to seem the very price of living in such a lovely place...
...when you link a fantasy culture to the wondrous American inventory of guns, you may now and then get a little terrorist. Guns fire vicious daydreams into the actual. Squint and point, and one magic trigger-finger's twitch, the merest spasm of impulse, may send the world into mayhem. That is a power so seductive that it might even have a little Satan...
...spectacle of an old woman humiliating herself is not the most severe danger confronting patrons of the Duck. While I was waiting to meet Melissa, a group of men in sunglasses and leather jackets brusquely walked into the bar. I later found out that they had been in a vicious barfight with the bouncers a few weekends before, and were now meeting to see what would be done about...
Recovery from the ravages of war is the baseline against which Mozambique's progress must be measured. Almost from the day the former Portuguese colony won independence in 1975, it was dragged into a vicious struggle between its new rulers, the Marxist Mozambique Liberation Front, known as Frelimo, and a rebel movement called Renamo that was trained, armed and supplied mostly from sources in South Africa. Sixteen years of guerrilla warfare devastated the country. A million men, women and children died. Two million people fled across the borders; 3 million more moved off their farms into safer urban enclaves. When...
Hell hath no fury like a guilty and vicious old feudalism dying. The conquest of legal segregation and discrimination in the South is an ugly, heroic American story that ended, officially at least, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In The Children (Random House; 783 pages; $29.95), David Halberstam takes up the narrative in early 1960, with the lunch-counter sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C., and Nashville, Tenn., that were the debut of a new civil rights generation, most of whose members were younger by five or 10 years...