Religious Hatreds Tend To Be Merciless And

The Clinton's Secret Is That They Live In A Morally Discontinuous Universe-events Do Not Have Consequences, And What Happened 15 Minutes Ago Has No Connection To What Happens Now. Beware Of Power When It Masters The Secret Of Popular Amnesia.

Not To Forgive Is To Be Imprisoned By The Past, By Old Grievances That Do Not Permit Life To Proceed With New Business.

Africa Has A Genious For Extremes, For The Beginning And The End. It Seems Simultaneously Connected To Some Memory Of Eden And To Some Foretaste Of Apocalypse. Nowhere Is Day More Vivid Or Night Darker. Nowhere Are Forests More Luxuriant. Nowhere Is There A Continent More Miserable

The Church Became Both More Accessible And Less Imposing. It Threw Itself Open To Risk.

The Television Anchorman Dan Rather Turns Up In Rag-top Native Drag In Afghanistan, The Surrogate Of Our Culture With His Camera Crew, Intrepid As Sir Richard Burton Sneaking Into Mecca.