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...classes were going or showed much interest in my daily life. But he did teach me how to dig up potatoes, fix toilet plumbing, catch Japanese beetles at twilight in a jam jar. How to talk to a dying man. That's slowly, waiting until he has caught his breath, not asking too many questions, getting him water or melted sherbet, sitting quietly, being there. Switching on the golf...
...They are not advised to hold their breath...
Anderson plays Lily, handsomely, as a rare creature trapped under glass. The air thins; her breath shortens. And the viewer watches, appreciative of her plight, all but moved. The film is under glass as well. Davies, whose Distant Voices, Still Lives is a muted masterpiece, here is closer to Masterpiece Theatre, tastefully observing the glamour of social ruin...
...Internet business looks to be on a natural catch-its-breath break, waiting for efficiencies to move outside the office and wired-everything technologies to mature. It happened after the Industrial Revolution, too. But when tech turns human, we're an ordinary economy, and one in an old-fashioned business-cycle global downturn at that. Tech has not been around to prop up America this fall, and so the rest of the world is sinking too. Rate cuts are coming in the spring - maybe sooner - but the NASDAQ is drowning in its own dashed expectations. Greenspan won't be able...
...Waiting for change? Don't hold your breath For all the grousing about the current situation, and the tumult it so memorably precipitated over the weeks following the election, most constitutional scholars agree that sweeping changes are unlikely. We're a nation fond of tradition - particularly our own - and while we're probably ready for some serious overhaul to the ballots themselves (perhaps in the form of federalized voting standards - no more chads!) it won't be easy to convince the political establishment to vanquish a voting methodology as old as the country itself...