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...clear enough: "Go away from my window, / Go away from my door, / Go away way from my bedside / And bother me no more / And bother me no more." But it got a softer, more complex meaning both from the melody, which has the poignancy of a lullaby to an absent child, and from Niles' rendition, his voice soaring on the first "bother me no more" so that he sounds like an unquiet spirit, or maybe a sleeper shooing a ghost out of his nightmares...
...THAT GOT AWAY HOWELL RAINES "There is," Raines tells us, "nothing as gone, as utterly lost to us, nothing as definitely absent and irretrievable as a lost fish." This from a man who lost one of the biggest fish in media, executive editorship of the New York Times, after the infamous Jayson Blair scandal. In this easy chair of a book, Raines, frank, engaging and not entirely without rancor, hops nimbly from the newsroom to such remote waters as the Kola Peninsula in Russia and the seas around tiny Christmas Island. "Howell eats gunpowder for breakfast," one Times reporter says...
...policeman, much less report a crime, making them an extremely vulnerable population. Thus, this policy turns a potential instability into a strength, making immigrants more likely to contribute to the communities they reside in— a driving force in the U.S. all throughout its history. Yet absent from discussions on Cambridge’s decision to reaffirm its status last Tuesday, however, was the fact that many immigrants no longer reside in the Bay State’s only sanctuary city. When Cambridge first declared sanctuary status in 1985, immigrants were able to move in because rent control kept...
...Lynch and Deutsche Bank have raised their ratings on the stock, citing evidence that GM's cost-cutting plan is on track. "This is a salvageable situation," says David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research. "It's a crisis, but that's the good and bad news. Absent a crisis, I don't think they'd survive...
...condoms and a comprehensive sexual education would be the only way to preclude abortions. Grizzle’s response was “but I don’t believe in pre-marital sex.” But at least, thanks in part to a now absent, fictional fetus, they’re talking...