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...even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing...
...filled-in), the possibility of "human contact" is becoming much more distant. With the ever-strengthening communities that have formed on sites like boredatlamont (one writer excused himself on Monday night for dinner and assured other commentators that he would be back soon), online forums could institute a vicious cycle in which the most vulnerable students become reliant on virtual reality as their medium of contact...
...many who survived Saddam's monstrous regime, his ignoble end was no more than he deserved. But the unseemly scenes from the gallows, captured by a clandestine camera phone and broadcast to an aghast world, were also a reminder of what has come since he was removed from power: vicious sectarian hatreds that intrude, as his brutality once did, upon every aspect of Iraqi life, including the final seconds of Saddam's. His death did nothing to dampen those hatreds. The celebrations over his execution lasted barely a day before the Shi'ite-Sunni war resumed in earnest, with scores...
Somalia's future hangs on whether the new government can achieve that reconciliation. Since the collapse of the last functioning government in 1991, Somalia has been a prisoner of bloody anarchy, a void filled by vicious and impressively armed chaos as rival warlords, clans and subclans, and Islamists prosecuted a series of civil wars - over power, over historic animosity and over competing visions of Islam. Last summer, the Islamic Courts Union (i.c.u.) - an alliance of clerics and clan leaders - took Mogadishu and forced the warlords out. In the last two weeks, the T.F.G., backed by thousands of troops from neighboring...
...noose around the dictator's neck was one of the most striking images ever viewed across the Arab world - an Arab president being held to account. Still, for much of the Arab world, the execution of Saddam Hussein is not being viewed in the light of the vicious crimes he committed against his people and his neighbors. Instead, it is being remembered by the sounds heard on the widely disseminated video of Saddam's final moments - Shi'ite partisans chanting sectarian slogans and praising the radical cleric Moqtada Sadr. Saddam's rule has relatively few defenders in Iraq and beyond...