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After another brief bout of indecision over our choice of location, we select the pit as the most potentially lucrative site. We set out our sign, “Please Give $ For Wedding,” the small basket christened with dimes and pennies by a few kind friends, and assume our positions. Grainne and Angela settle on the concrete blocks just outside the pit and I stand on the ground in front of them. I struggle to replicate the expressionless gaze I so admire in the Square’s bride and angel living statues. I stare straight ahead...
...necessary feature of healthy competition, but when they spread through an entire economy, it is cause for concern. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently signaled that he was prepared to cut short-term interest rates for the 13th time since January 2001 to guard against a corrosive bout of deflation, like the one Japan has endured for nearly a decade. Wage pressures and deflation "obviously go together," says Laurence Meyer, an economist and a former member of the Fed's board of governors. "When there is slackness in the economy, it puts downward pressure on wages that then passes through...
...which Steinbeck’s use of the rabbit-as-metaphor eclipses the rabbit qua rabbit, or even as reified rodent—furry symbol of proliferation—let us consider more closely Lennie’s appeal to George: “Tell me ’bout the rabbits.…” This single poignant remark is nothing less than Steinbeck giving voice to the tacit cry of the reader, who in the process of reading this novel implicitly implores the author to “tell [him/her] ’bout the rabbits?...
...know what that debased and delusional policy yielded: the bloodiest bout of Palestinian-Israeli violence in history. With the region knee-deep in body parts, the Bush Administration ordered a halt to the insanity. On June 24, 2002, Bush pledged himself to a Palestinian state but told the Palestinians that they will get nothing until they give up this war, crack down on terrorism, democratize their institutions and, most important, strip Arafat of power...
...When this person is in a bout of feeling overwhelmed and depressed, suicide is unbelievably logical.... It just feels like the right thing to do,” Barreira said. “In those instances one way to help is to remind her of other times when she didn’t feel that...