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There were times when, in my child's perception, it all seemed like a great (if frightening) adventure; not until much later did I come to understand the full dimensions of the horror created by nearly six years of war. My family's experience pales into insignificance in the grim sweep of events, but it was one of millions of similar stories-a mosaic of suffering and hardship on all sides of the conflict. We were fortunate. We survived...
...German heartland. Some 4 million refugees from the eastern regions of the country were on the move toward the west. Terrified by the tales of rape and pillage that had accompanied the advance of Soviet forces, they were trying to find safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold again, needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population...
...course, the two trade-offs aren't strictly comparable. That qualitative dimension of death by bombing stubbornly persists. However I may argue for a cool assessment of horror, the fact remains that a single explosion scares people more than the background noise of highway death. Proposed anti-terrorist laws are in some sense aimed less at averting future deaths than at averting the ensuing fear. And, to be sure, quelling fear is a valid policy goal. The point is just that to whatever extent we can fight fear with reason, we should, because to that extent we can preserve...
...Never eat the popcorn at a movie theater. I must relate the story of the time Gina Maria Sandoval, she of the big hair, the Kabuki harlot make-up and the lavender Lee Press-On nails, was in charge of making the popcorn. We heard a muffled cry of horror and a Spanish expletive emerge from the lovely Gina, who she told us that she had lost one of her nails in the popcorn. About two hours later, a pleasantly bourgeois woman emerged from a screening of the Tom Cruise extravaganza "Far and Away" and lodged a complaint with...
...horror stories coming out of New Haven in the last few years are well-documented. One day it's a murder. The next day, a student comes home to find his apartment robbed and his dog's head...