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...help supplanted workers, chances for an agreement took a giant step forward. Last week congressional committees endorsed Bush's authority to negotiate a deal that Congress must vote up or down but may not amend. This so-called fast-track authority is crucial, because no country wants to bother hammering out a pact that Congress can then turn inside out. Presuming Bush's negotiators clinch a deal like the recent one with Canada -- and Congress approves it -- North America could achieve a truly open common market about the same time Europe does next year...
Wyatt has a writer's sensibility, but Humphreys was wise to make him a lawyer. The profession symbolizes convention, respectability and decorum. Were her protagonist a writer, expectedly musing at the beach, no one would bother with him. There would be no lovely Louise, former girlfriend and wife of his ex-partner, trying to mother him back to responsibility and solvency. There would be no Billie, the child-woman who, like the dog trainer in Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist, teaches new tricks...
...People frequently use their children as a model for dealing with an Alzheimer's patient. But to treat patients as you would a child, to try to teach them and train them, is absolutely counterproductive. I tell families not to be bothered by what the Alzheimer's patient does if it's just a bother in theory. The best example of this is the patient who paces or talks to the television set, or who does a task over and over again. Maybe they'll keep folding or unfolding laundry, or maybe they like to wash the same dish...
Contrast that with what he told Rolling Stone in 1989: "I do have an ethical compass that I follow very strictly. For one reason or another, I seem to get under the other side's skin, but that doesn't bother...
...would like to bother the people as little as possible while bothering the program as much as possible," said protester Elijah Wald...