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...political enemies who laced his iced cherries or milk with arsenic after all. He died the old-fashioned way, of natural causes, according to the medical examiner who studied Taylor's remains last week. Clara Rising, an author researching a book on Taylor, had raised the suspicion that "Old Rough and Ready" was murdered...
...myth as his framework, Keen takes up the ancient theme that each man is on a spiritual journey, a quest for the grail of manhood. Bly's book is an original song of the road, a literary Walkman piping background music for the journey. Keen attempts to provide a rough road map for the trip, advising the spiritual traveler how to avoid the dead ends of combative machismo and the blind alleys of romantic obsession...
...east, Ronge says, competition among ideas and movements was suppressed and decisions came down from above. As a result, some people there are uneasy now with the rough-and-tumble of Western-style political debate, preferring consensus or passive acceptance of authority. Wessis are exasperated by such attitudes. They remember their own postwar economic miracle, which transformed a bombed-out war zone into an economic superpower, and wonder why the same isn't happening in the east...
...violence were moving into South Central Los Angeles, where Singleton spent his boyhood, and the temptations were strong. "My parents didn't have a lot of money," he says. "I used to steal little stuff, like candy, toys and Players magazines, but I never got into anything too rough...
...party regimes that have replaced them, partly the extraordinary range of internal conflicts within the region, partly the tug of Islamic fundamentalism. But even in a country like Iran, you see a remarkable range of disagreement that has internalized pluralism. There are patterns emerging that create a kind of rough balance between more or less secular forces, even within the Islamic framework of the country. You are finding a similar evolution in Jordan...