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...convinced government has its duties and can perform them admirably, if nourished. Gore seems a little more strenuous about the environment, Bush a little more stingy with our national influence abroad. Gore is more apt to try to keep some money out of politics - it doesn't seem to bother Bush, as long as all the power brokers respect each other and the right wheels get greased. Right. Left. Republican. Democrat. They're not evil men, just politicians...
...bring about stability--be it in the Taiwan Straits, the Holy Land or the Persian Gulf--is the United States. Because the United States is the only global actor with any agency, the important question becomes not what the world thinks, but what America believes. No one need bother with the United Nations as a result. Peace processes should be spearheaded by the United States, because the last hopes for peace and stability can only be preserved through American intervention...
...When I'm walking around a city without my camera, I don't really bother paying attention to what's around me. But when I have my camera with me, all the senses in my whole body, not just my eyes, come alive and begin to observe things. When that happens, my memory and all the various elements within me come out. So all the various things, like my memory and my interests, look outside of me, and I am then able to see all sorts of things. My body becomes an antenna...
...Will the coyotes survive, the farm be freed from its toxic crop, the insects be allowed to regulate their own population balances? Did God make little green organic apples? Kingsolver doesn't bother much with suspense in unfolding these matters; right thinking may seldom triumph in the real world, but it's her novel and she'll run it the way she sees fit. Her heroines are genuinely interesting, however, even when they're patiently teaching lessons to the benighted, and the author sometimes pokes a little gentle fun at their high-mindedness. When Deanna laboriously captures a moth...
...bother wiping those stupid grins off your faces. Good luck to the Mets and the Yankees. But this ain't no Subway Series...