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...starvation is one of the weapons of war," was vice-chairman of the Nigerian governments's comment on the policy that resulted in the death by starvation of two million people. In The Brutality of Nations, Dan Jacobs steers us away from Chief Awolowo's Machiavellian viewpoint. The more significant and shocking issue raised by the book is identified by its long subtitle: "How, in pursuit of political objectives in the Nigerian Civil War, a number of great and small nations, including Britain and the United States, worked to prevent supplies of food and medicine from reaching the starving children...
...product of triumphant Indian revolution against the British, Rushdie should bring a fresh viewpoint to the Central' American debate, using his uncommon background to comment insightfully from a vantage point few Western critics can claim...
None of this is very surprising, for Sowell is a dedicated conservative (though he dislikes such labels) much admired in the Reagan Administration & and elsewhere. He has won considerable attention for his attacks on affirmative action, school busing and various black leaders. While he likes to ascribe the unconstrained viewpoint to unauthoritative authorities like Ramsey Clark, Sowell often attributes the constrained vision to masters like Oliver Wendell Holmes, who provides some splendid dicta. For example, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." And, "Every year if not every day we have to wager...
...smoke, and that fact will color my viewpoint on this issue. But I do not smoke in dining halls or other public places, nor do I light up in the face of people who don't like smoking. And growing up as the child of two smoking parents, I know what it's like to be stuck in a car for six hours with two people puffing away for the whole trip...
...smoke, and that fact will color my viewpoint on this issue. But I do not smoke in dining halls or other public places, nor do I light up in the face of people who don't like smoking. And growing up as the child of two smoking parents, I know what it's like to be stuck in a car for six hours with two people puffing away for the whole trip...