People Travel Because It Teaches

The Busybodies Have Begun To Infect American Society With A Nasty Intolerance - A Zeal To Police The Private Lives Of Others And Hammer Them Into Standard Forms - A Nation Of Finger Pointers.

As They Marched, The Crowds Lining The Route Broke Into Applause, A Sweet And Deeply Felt Spontaneous Pattering That Was A Sort Of Communal Embrace. Welcome Home.

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.

Forgiveness Frees The Forgiver.

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