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When war first broke out in Croatia a year ago, Americans dismissed the senseless violence with a regretful tut-tut, while Europeans clung to the hope that people would soon come to their senses. But as the fighting has spread south and east, igniting Bosnia-Herzegovina and threatening to engulf other independence-minded regions of the former Yugoslavia, hope has evaporated that sanity will prevail. The toll is terrible: more than 12,000 people dead, tens of thousands missing and wounded, 1.5 million men, women and children forced to flee their homes. Those numbers only begin to hint...
...became an army, not a police force. With its battering rams and paramilitary uniforms, its choke holds and Taser guns, it set the hard-nosed, Magnum Force, make-my-day standard for urban law enforcement through the '70s and '80s. In the process, it became so muscle- bound and senseless that it was unable to cope rationally with a traffic hazard named Rodney King, let alone with rioters and looters. Here too L.A. takes us into a Blade Runner future...
...which a white woman, her purse gripped firmly in hand, hurried down an empty city street as an announcer said, "Freedom from fear is a basic right of every American. We must restore it." That spot was staged. The recent video of a white truck driver being beaten senseless by a marauding mob is real, and several Bush aides say they would "not be surprised" if some snappy voice-over were contrived to run along with that tragedy, played again and again in the fall as a reminder of the horror that awaits "us" if "they" are not contained...
Weicker challenged critics of American democracy to do more than complain, saying "their senseless destruction of politics in America...has managed to paralyze government and decimate the ranks of those willing to serve...
Like a kid intent on a Nintendo game, Dr. David Sugarbaker looks not at the patient lying senseless on the operating table but at the TV positioned by her side. "I think we're right on target," he exults. Displayed on the screen is a larger-than-life section of the woman's right lung, a rosy mass marred by a couple of suspicious lumps. "Fire away," Sugarbaker directs the assisting surgeon. On the screen a tiny pincer appears. Grabbing hold of the lung just above the lesion, the pincer makes a clean slice through the quivering tissue, simultaneously sealing...