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Internationalists share a realization that the order is at grave risk, and along with it the seven decades of relative growth, prosperity and peace it provided.
So when the hormones hit me, and the realization was undeniable, I knew I was in very grave trouble.
Now, driving through an iron gate and into the garden of Benazir Bhutto's bungalow, I was struck by the realization that she lived in the shadow of Zia ul-Haq's grave.
One of the benefits of seeing combat as a young person is the realization that glory is overrated--it's capricious and usually comes at grave cost.
But the tension between this abstract and diminishing idea and its realization as a strange, aged, specific figure, with a strong, unostentatious but perfect body and a grave, unforgettable face — half Don Imus, half St. Jerome; Nicholl suggests that it is a self-portrait — gives the image a certain heroism, as though the individual had stoically lent himself for a scientific trial.
The blank ordinariness of his character brings out the moral and physical ugliness of life in North Korea, where soldiers steal and beg for food; a dog digs up a fresh mass grave (and the next day all the dogs in the neighborhood are shot); and Jenkins awakens to the bleak, deadening realization that his two daughters are being groomed as spies.
A quick memory of a weathered grave stele I had once seen in Macedonia -- depicting a father, mother, child and an overturned ship -- clinched the realization.
His realization?
A realization.
Then, a realization hit.
This realization was thrilling.
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