| 1 | Unfortunately, the home cooking hasn't done them any favors. | |
| 2 | I can never imagine that the sons and daughters would attack one another like the creations of Cadmus in the presence of their dying father. | |
| 3 | If this idea fails, then all the saved tax dollars in the world will not be enough to prevent the nation from turning on itself. | |
| 4 | The result of this fratricidal carnage is that al-Qaida has now lost what fatal attraction it once held for anti-imperialists. | |
| 5 | China was devastated by flood, famine, rebellion, warlordism, invasion, civil strife and, finally, a Communist dictatorship. |