Word: beaches
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...Platonic ideals that can never be attained in this imperfect world. American history, though, is replete with achievements that can inspire us in our attempts to bring the real world closer to the utopia we desire. The desperate courage of rangers on Omaha Beach, the steadfast faith of the Freedom Riders and the unshakable integrity of Washington are collective memories that we, as a nation, can draw upon for strength...
...fell back to Earth, showering debris across southern Siberia and driving Globalstar's stock down 40% overnight. The $190 million payload was covered by insurance, but the disaster delayed the system's debut even further. It was a big blow. Like the first cold-beer vendor on a hot beach, Iridium is more likely than ever to win those first and most eager customers--and the ones probably willing to pay top dollar for the new service. The company is betting that its charter customers will then balk at ditching their expensive handset for a Globalstar unit--even...
...little too much of the antics of the Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Both men are more enamored of neat rhetoric than they are of reasoned statements or even sensible ones. Who could forget Gingrich's famous speech at the 1996 Republican convention on beach volleyball: "A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. Now it is not only a sport in the Olympics. There are over 30 countries that have a competition internationally....And there's a whole new world of opportunity opening up that didn't even exist....And that's what freedom...
...until now. He stays in suburban St. Louis at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, alone with Spectravision when not with friends and teammates. McGwire hasn't even done much on the endorsements front--though that cap he keeps wearing at press conferences for the Abbey, a fledgling restaurant in Seal Beach, Calif., has got to be worth some kind of meal--and his few public appearances have been less than stellar: his taped spot at last week's MTV Music Video Awards included the sentence, "Give it up for the Backstreet Boys...
...find oneself still hungry, frustrated with the limits of a canon. In the case of an artist with famously lost, botched or unfinished works, this hunger can be particularly keen. I know, having recently been driven to buy a bootlegged CD of material recorded for Smile, the legendarily unfinished Beach Boys album that could have been the greatest pop record of the '60s--Brian Wilson said he was writing a "teenage symphony to God"--if it hadn't collapsed under the weight of Wilson's ambition and mental illness. I love this CD. I love its raw beauty, but even...