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...criticism over the years from Catholic partisans in the struggle over Northern Ireland, who felt that Heaney was insufficiently engaged in the tumultuous here and now. His move to Dublin, capital of the Irish Republic, in 1972 also proved controversial. But Heaney has written quite movingly about the carnage wrought by hatred in his native land. In "Casualty," he portrays the death of a Catholic friend who went to a Protestant pub in spite of warnings that a wing of the Irish Republican Army planned to bomb it: "He had gone miles away/ For he drank like a fish." After...
...well. As a white man with a healthy skepticism of authority, I was nevertheless stunned that a Mark Fuhrman could have remained so long on a prestigious, presumably professional urban police force. Because no future juror who has heard the Fuhrman tapes will soon forget them, the damage wrought by the Simpson trial will be the reluctance of jurors, black and white, to trust the word of white officials who gather or present evidence against black defendants. Even meritorious prosecutions may be lost unless and until police agencies prove to us they can remove the racists within them...
Among the many memorable things the O.J. Simpson trial has wrought is a large and varied cast of characters with an overblown sense of their own importance. Starting with a few lawyers and moving on down through some of the dismissed jurors to the Kato Kaelins and Faye Resnicks, members of this new American gothic have milked the mikes, signed book contracts and chatted on Larry King Live with abandon. But one person whose self-image may be right on target is former detective Mark Fuhrman. "I am the most important witness in the trial of the century," Fuhrman purportedly...
...Snow once wrote, "physicists became, almost overnight, the most important military resource a nation-state could call upon." The unleashing of the awesome destructive power of the atom turned physicists into politicians and politicians into physicists. Scientists were forced to reckon with the repercussions of what they had wrought, while political and military leaders had to comprehend the power they held at their fingertips. In Richard Rhodes' epic and fascinating Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Simon & Schuster; 731 pages; $32.50), a sequel to his Pulitzer prizewinning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Rhodes shows how the failure...
...understand what relief it is not to see what the war has most recently wrought on Bosnia. I'd much rather read it in the Times the next day, because then I don't have to feel so terrible about yesterday's news. Whereas television is immediate, newspapers are consistently behind the curve, dealing in the past tense. Essentially, they allow you to feel guilty yesterday, whereas television hits you with instantaneous guilt. Newspapers delay the pain...