Word: apartness
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...Brockton, Mass., as a 16-year-old, a child of Newark who happened to find himself living in Rocky Marciano's home town. They gave him a job with their construction company and a place to dream on the side. "Rocky and I grew up five miles apart. He was going to go in with us on the gym," says Goody, whose own nose is unmistakably bent. "I thought of him when Marvin was bleeding, and it looked like they might stop it, and they didn't. I knew the knockout was coming then. He fought like Rocky this time...
...strangely self-deprecating people. The sheer size of their land is intimidating: its smallest province. Prince Edward Island, is almost twice the size of Rhode Island; to drive west from Toronto to the next large Canadian city, Winnipeg, takes 36 hours nonstop. Canadians, he learned, are literally a nation apart, their identity splintered by endless geography into ethnic and regional tributaries that do not form a national mainstream. Malcolm finds a large cultural significance in the small fact that one of the most popular imported beers in the U.S., Moose-head Canadian Lager, is available in 50 American states...
...President mended last week, the battered congressional budget process threatened to tear apart. Rancorous negotiations between congressional leaders to resolve differences in the House and Senate budget resolutions collapsed. "I assume that means no budget," huffed House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray, a Pennsylvania Democrat. His Senate counterpart, Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico, was equally gloomy: "Everywhere I turn I see no way to go." Senate Republicans were still smarting from what they regard as an act of betrayal by the White House. They had voted in May to eliminate the cost of living adjustment on Social Security...
...crisis. Whether the new crackdown will have a similar effect remains to be seen. Last week the Financial Mail, a Johannesburg newsweekly, ran a cover story titled "The Townships at War." The cover illustration of rising flames included a quotation from a poem by W.B. Yeats: "Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." South Africans could not help wondering if that was a comment or a prediction. --By Jill Smolowe. Reported by Bruce W. Nelan/Johannesburg
...recorders recovered from the seabed two weeks ago: "Explosion is one possibility. It may also be structural failure." But in Seattle, Jack Gamble, a spokesman for Boeing, the manufacturer of the 747 aircraft, declared that an explosion seemed a more likely explanation. His reasoning: if the plane had fallen apart slowly because of structural defects, there would probably be evidence of this on the tapes. But "both recorders go off line within one second," despite four separate power sources...