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...conveyor belt is the seedpod of our death. The furniture really does conceal monsters. Each rental truck is an apocalypse idling at the curb. Each 747 takes on some unsettling metaphysic of Jonah-eating whale, or Moby Dick. Paranoia renders nature and its objects darkly volitional, satanic. The intent of terrorism, we know, is to break down the boundaries and sane categories of the mind and to make everyone start thinking like a psychotic...
...hatred infecting a region traumatized by Rwanda's and Burundi's civil wars. Neither the Tutsi minority, victims of genocide in 1994, nor the Hutu majority, disfranchised in both their former homelands, has been willing to negotiate. Both feel they have an ancestral right to govern and are intent on pursuing that goal by any means. Ironically, the Hutu quest for a homeland in Zaire conforms to the most radical solution yet proposed to solve the crisis: redrawing the borders so that Hutu and Tutsi can live apart in their own countries. But talks that would precede such a partition...
...highly contentious issue of affirmative action, however, Scalia has been accused of abandoning both his fidelity to original intent and his habitual deference to the legislature. He argues that the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause forbids virtually any racial classifications in law despite the fact that the very Congress that passed the 14th Amendment went on to pass laws using just such classifications...
Cameron F. MacDonald and Kevin M. Silvers, both about 20 years old, were arrested for unarmed assault and intent to rob in connection with the incident, police said...
...peril would be Arafat, whose credibility with Palestinians is hardly high enough to sustain further disappointments. He desperately needs proof that his peace concessions have not been in vain and would profit from fast-paced discussions on the territories' final status, but he faces a new Israeli government more intent on slowing everything way down. Says Souheil Natoor of the hard-line Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: "Now the Palestinians are saying to Arafat, 'You did whatever the Israelis asked of you. And the result is the Israelis voted against peace.' The Palestinians will say the Israelis...