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...when its head jerked up with startling speed and swung back and forth, alert and lifelike. "It came up real fast, its eyes dilated, its skin was twitching. When you see it, it doesn't take much imagination to get beyond the fantasy. I jumped about 10 feet backward...
...Powell is not the perfect role model. More specifically, he wrongly opposes allowing people who are openly homosexual to serve in the military. If his political power and background make him the most important Commencement speaker in years, his backward view of gay and lesbian soldiers makes him the most unenlightened one in years...
...streak" of a life that she passes on to her daughter Sophia and to Margaret: "I trusted my grandmother. Everything she had ever said had been true, and I had long since learned to do whatever she told me to do. Trusting her to guide me . . . was like falling backward like her chloroformed women, knowing that not only would I be caught, but I would be caught before I realized I was falling...
...fashion to choose a routine and coordinate their movements? In order to spit, for instance, they both must take water into their mouths before they leap into the air -- a trick that takes some forethought. Other requests for tandem creatives have yielded a variety of results, including a synchronized backward swim culminating in a simultaneous wave of the tails. Or could it be that these routines are nothing more than one dolphin very closely following the lead of another? In the wild, after all, dolphins are extraordinarily skilled at tuning their actions to the movements of others in their group...
...obviously, "the end of history" has a dark, chaotic side. The collapse of the binary cold war configuration has produced an unstable, free-form arrangement of forces and impulses loose in the world, often traveling forward or backward at high historical speed. The world moves along a double track, tending toward one extreme or the other -- toward economic internationalism and electronic interpenetrations, for example, and at the same time toward monomaniacal nationalisms. Toward intelligent tolerance on the one hand and toward irrational religious tribalisms on the other. The trouble is that the dark side tends to gain when fear...