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...across the land, the people had jobs, and worked hard at them, and fed their children, whose faces were all alight and still ruddy from their day at play. And the politicians saw this, and watched the deficit shrinking, and they smiled too, and proffered friendship to each other...
When archaeologists from Alpha Centauri alight on earth and begin excavating the rubble of our world, they will be astonished to find, on reaching the stratum circa 1996, that they have stumbled upon a civilization that at the same time produced 1) Dick Morris and 2) pictures of Jupiter's largest moon (430 million miles away) taken from a distance of 162 miles...
...Western Wall with a hail of stones, forcing an evacuation. How can the Palestinians expect their plea for religious toleration to be taken seriously when many of them lack sensitivity? To complicate their outrage at Israeli "insensitivity," Palestinians demonstrated a brand of their own in their attempt to set alight the tomb of Rachel, one of the matriarchs of the Jewish people. In all of this, Yassir Arafat's growing resume of handshakes and photo-ops have demonstrated that in spite of what may look good on CNN or in picture-perfect Rose Garden ceremonies, for the average Israeli...
More than 55 mourners, including Tadesse'sthree uncles and an aunt who live in Brookline,were at the wake, where Tadesse's body, in alight, cream-colored dress, lay in an open casket...
Which of us can resist that tinge of pride that comes from basking in the glow of one of our Own--that narcissistic gleam which is sparked when our eyes alight, somewhere in the "Real world," on a Harvard name: Marjorie Garber on the Op-Ed page of The Boston Globe, Robert Reich telling all on Oprah, Jill McCorkle's latest novel staring out from B. Dalton's or Neil's "exausted" mug on the cover of Newsweek. So it was with a feeling of excitement that I headed over to the Hasty Pudding Theatre to watch Demons...