Word: cesspools
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Everyone loves the comforts of home. And while in years past we have referred to New Haven as “degenerate” and “a putrid cesspool,” times, they are a-changin’. New Haven, indeed, is in the midst of a renaissance; this is something we can no longer deny. With your fancy restaurants, flashy nightclubs, and newly paved roads, we understand even why it might be difficult for you to want to leave your resurgent town. Yet, let the words of Nancy Reagan resound: “I have been...
...Americans, Washington is a giant cesspool. It's no wonder almost half of Americans (47%) now agree with the statement "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." It's us (the people) versus them (the politicians), and it doesn't matter what primary color you wear. Just as in the closing scene of George Orwell's Animal Farm, even when you look closely, you can't tell the difference between the animals and the people anymore...
...over his half-century as a writer, he has created an anti-utopian gulag of ostensibly placid communities - island resorts, luxury apartment towers, high-tech research parks - where civility deteriorates and darkness rises. In Kingdom Come, his latest and perhaps most unsettling work yet, Ballard exposes a particularly nasty cesspool of social pathology: the shopping mall. First, a clarification. Confusingly, Ballard is perhaps best known for Empire of the Sun, a surprisingly sunny best seller based on his World War II boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai - and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1987 feel-good movie...
...world, the facts just keep saying otherwise [Aug. 21]. It is understandable that the U.S. would want Pakistan to deal with the monster it has created. But sooner or later Western nations will have to get involved in that nation's internal affairs. Pakistan continues to be the cesspool of terrorism, and only direct intervention by the West is going to eradicate that threat. Suresh Sheth Houston I'm appalled by ungrateful young Muslims living in foreign lands. Host countries should conduct a survey of Muslim noncitizens. If any complain they are not happy, the host country should ship them...
...with Skittles. Only about 10% of the meals ready to eat (MREs) contain Laura's favorite treat, so her staff hoards them for use whenever they have to deliver bad news. She has been impressed at how comfortable her camp has been. "Much nicer than the cesspool they have put Jim in," she notes. She shares a tent with 65 of her troops, discovering to her surprise how loudly some men snore. They all sleep in their uniforms or stripped down to T shirts; there are separate showers and latrines for men and women. For the first two weeks...