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...should be the other way around. The Bush Administration should be trying harder to get China -- itself in need of some respectability these days -- to abandon its most disgraceful clients. The U.S. should also withhold aid to Sihanouk until he breaks with the Khmer Rouge entirely. Perhaps, deprived of all international tolerance, they will suffer defeats, lose their ability to recruit troops and fade into history...
...paint goes on thickly but not with abandon. The surface seems to store light, like stone. It is opaque; you can't see through it or even into it. It is not about space. Besides, the inlaid, modular, even puzzle-like surfaces of Scully's recent canvases prevent the eye from roaming them too freely. Stray out of one box and you finish in another, not on a free horizon. Hence the density, the lack of spaces between things, which adds to the gravity of Scully's work. It has something to do with the largeness of architecture...
Last week's decision by the outgoing government to abandon rationing and other controls immediately and permit market forces to control prices had lightning impact: the cost of bread soared 100%, milk nearly 300% and some cuts of meat more than 400%. But the move brought no quick improvement in food supplies because prices and incomes had been frozen throughout July, and Poles, aware that sharp increases loomed, had cleared store shelves of most commodities...
Despite such moments of boozy abandon, Hazelwood had a reputation, at least among the Trolls, for knowing when to stop. "Jeff seemed to have more common sense than the rest of us, and he could control his drinking," Laraway recalls. "He was the quiet one who didn't go far enough to get into trouble...
...Offshore of Atlantic City the ship ran into a freak storm. High winds snapped the ship's mast, and it toppled, along with the ship's radar and electronics gear. With 30-ft. waves and 50-knot winds overpowering the vessel, several sailors grabbed life jackets and prepared to abandon ship. But Hazelwood calmed the crew and rigged a makeshift antenna. After radioing shore, he guided the Chester out of the storm. Then, with the safety of his crew and cargo in mind, Hazelwood followed the storm back to New York -- and, to his surprise, ran into a brief storm...