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THIS proposal does not seek to remove Saddam Hussein from office. This omission is fully intentional. Obviously, it makes the proposal more acceptable to Saddam himself. More importantly, Saddam is the least of several evils. Saddam's successor could be both as dangerous as Saddam and more popular than he...
And anyway, Saddam may believe he can in some sense win. Given the size, technical sophistication and firepower of the forces arrayed against him, that looks like the wildest miscalculation of all. But the cost of proving him wrong, in blood, economic chaos and political upheaval, could be ghastly -- and...
The difference between fiction and myth is that people do not feel impelled to act on fictions, whereas myths are a guide to life. In this sense, one could say that Ryder, in the process of becoming the very prototype of the saintly visionary, patron of outsiders, pure of spirit...
Dread of aging and death, whether by illness or murder, hovers over many of Spark's characters, but that does not make the author glum. Unlike Margaret, who is criticized by her husband for liking "art to have an exalted message whereas if there was anything he hated in art...
But Islam also enshrined certain discriminatory practices. As decreed by the Koran, the value of a woman's testimony in court is worth half that of a man's, and men are entitled to four spouses, whereas women can have only one. Males are superior, some argue, because the Koran...