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...Kashmiris themselves, violence has divided and scattered what was once a close-knit Himalayan community. In their giddier moments, Muslim Kashmiris dreamed that a magic wand would, with one swish, eliminate both India and Pakistan from their lives, permitting them to create an independent state. Hindu Kashmiris, meanwhile, driven from the Muslim-majority valley by terrorism, wished for a Hindu homeland. However, though Kashmiris might be unfortunate, or romantic, they are not fools. They now realize that independence will not suddenly become an option today. Instead, they, along with the Indians and Pakistanis, should seek to effectively end the partition...
...Bush by critics are even more implausible. He didn't start a war to serve his re-election campaign or avenge his father or enrich his oil buddies or help Israel. The mystery of Bush's true motives adds to the impression of a wizard arbitrarily waving his wand over history...
...game's No. 1 player, and the second editorial did call upon Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus to protest as well. But asking Woods to lead the charge still struck me as implying that only a Magic Negro could be expected to wave his putter like a magic wand and singlehandedly settle the bitter quarrel between two entrenched camps. The people drafting Woods seem to feel that he has a special obligation to spearhead the assault on discrimination at Augusta simply because his multiracial background supposedly makes him especially sensitive to all forms of oppression. That's where the Magic...
...Duke of Dubuque and the Pasha of Oshkosh who butted in front of me at the airport put their stuff on the conveyor and walked through the scanner, and something on the Pasha's person set off the alarm. A security guy set about frisking him with a wand, which irked His Eminence, as did the request to remove the royal shoes. They were put through the scanner, and his briefcase was searched, and His Eminence started to give off anger fumes. He sighed deeply and shook his head at the insanity of it all. But the woman scanning...
...combat boots, with 9mm Berettas strapped to their side. Getting past them to work is a lot like getting on a plane these days: every employee as well as every visitor has to go through a metal detector and then get searched by a guard using an electronic hand wand...