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...world, is such that the smallness of human life, its everyday quasi-public intimacy, finds itself hard-pressed to compete. Smallness has long been endangered, of course, for mammoth buildings can generate an extraordinary sense of strength and power, a sense meted out in such words as citadel, fortress, bastion, and even tower. It is not surprising, perhaps, that the collapse of such strong buildings, such powerful symbols, has met with strong and powerful responses. I do not mean the response of firefighters, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, the police, and average New Yorkers, for whom strength and power are continually...
...first Bush Administration and a lawyer for W. during the Florida recount; Stephen Trott, a federal appellate judge and former Reagan Administration Justice Department official; and Ronald Noble, who currently leads Interpol. Choosing Noble, an African American, would help silence criticism that the bureau remains a conservative-white-male bastion...
...Wall Street learned to love gridlock. Under New Democrat Bill Clinton, the traditionally Republican bastion figured out that when Democrats couldn't spend what they wanted, Republicans couldn't cut taxes what they wanted and the whole place shut down over the budget seemingly every fall, things went pretty smoothly. Clinton managed to cut the deficit and do some trade deals, and of course Greenspan was on the job. Enter boom...
...Fans of "Diagnosis: Murder," "Nash Bridges," and "Walker, Texas Ranger" have been ditched. CBS offers five new dramas, two sitcoms and one reality show, none of which necessarily exactly plays like "Popstars" night at the WB, but at least represent a concerted effort to clear out the last programming bastion of the Greatest Generation. (There's always History Channel...
...think Harvard would be a bastion of science, computers, conservatism and capitalism," said a homeless activist and housing advocate who said he goes by the name "Outrageous Raging Love." "This is a sacrifice for students to leave their warm dorms for a night. Maybe activism isn't dead after...