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...tries to tell both simultaneously and does so with admirable evenhandedness. To be sure, some of the most powerful sequences are those of white men behaving badly and of Native Americans making their last, futile stands against the invaders--like Chief Joseph's 1877 flight toward Canada with his hitherto peaceful Nez Perce tribe, which launched deadly raids against the pursuing Army troops while trying to outrun them, only to surrender, in the brutal cold of Montana, just 40 miles from the border. Yet the series does not ignore complexities (the inter-tribal hatreds, for example), and the matter...
Netanyahu agrees that he wants to pursue the peace process, but he has different conceptions from those who had prevailed. Hitherto the U.S., Israel and the Arab parties were in agreement that it is necessary to "complete the circle of peace" by bringing in Syria and Lebanon and completing the Oslo accords. Netanyahu's analysis is that the Golan is not so important for Assad; much more important for Assad is establishing good working relations with the U.S. and legitimizing his position in Lebanon. Netanyahu believes the U.S. should tell Assad, "You make peace with Israel, we normalize relations with...
...seems to be the Unabomber was arrested--another example of the way in which a demon, hitherto concealed, may shrivel when brought into sunlight. The suspect's family turned him in because they recognized his writings--a killer betrayed by his own prose style...
...American painting was the Western frontier. By 1900 this had slid into nostalgia; it was no longer in synch with social reality. Most Americans lived in cities, and the myth of the West was just that: a myth, however durable. The real frontier was urban--a place of hitherto unimagined overcrowding, of cultural collision enforced by huge-scale immigration, of rapid change, where class ground against class like the imperfect rollers of a giant machine. Its epitome was New York City--Bagdad-on-the-Subway, as the writer O. Henry called it--a city in convulsive and continuous transition, bursting...
...Java, data and programs--the twin staples of computing--don't have to be stored on your computer anymore. They can reside anywhere on the Internet, called up by whoever needs them, whenever they need them. It's a development that could finally make true Sun's original and hitherto cryptic slogan: The Network Is the Computer. "There's a paradigm shift every 10 or 15 years," says Marc Andreessen, a Web pioneer and co-founder of Netscape Communications. "And we're in one right...