There must have been great yearning and repression in Mohamed Atta's life it is the torment of Atta's generation. They were placed perilously close to modernity, but they could not partake of it.
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These others -- the overwhelming majority of Iraq's people -- have repeatedly given every indication of valuing their newfound freedom voting in two elections at the risk of their lives, preparing for a third, writing and ratifying a constitution granting more freedoms than exist in any country in the entire Arab Middle East. The secret is out, ... There is something decent unfolding in Iraq. It's unfolding in the shadow of a terrible insurgency, but a society is finding its way to constitutional politics.
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