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...water with her thrashing crawl. Then, on the other side, in Lane 5, Annemarie Verstappen of The Netherlands, a lanky and apparently boneless 19-year-old, pulled to the slightest of leads. But 25 meters from the finish, Hogshead caught Verstappen, and Steinseifer was catching Hogshead, chopping through a communal bow wave. The Dutch racer faltered, and the two Americans surged on. The Scoreboard at first registered Steinseifer as the winner, then corrected itself: the first two times were identical, 55.92 sec. For the first time ever, two gold medals were awarded in an Olympic swimming race. Verstappen...
...live in one room. Their 150 sq. ft. of floor space does not provide enough for five beds; they solved that problem by raising the ceiling enough to create a small loft. Together with two other families, who also live in one room each, they cook in a communal kitchen downstairs. The three families share a public toilet about 80 ft. from the home...
Which kind of people do we wish to be? Both kinds. An energetic and sometimes ruthless individualism has always coexisted in the U.S. with the communal and compassionate impulse. Yin and yang...
...going back to school this summer. They are studying everything from quasars to Hawaiian quilt-making, Plato to paleobiology. Some are traveling to archaeological sites in Israel; others are bird watching in Virginia. They may wake up stiff after sleeping on cots and feel even less comfortable about communal bathrooms. Like other college students, they undoubtedly grouse about cafeteria food. But there is one big difference between these seniors and the ones who donned caps and gowns a month or so ago: their average...
...American mixture of patriotic fervor and bleary ease, of sunburn and a deeper stirring. The Founders adopted the Declaration of Independence in July and not in February (imagine sending fireworks up in a snowstorm), and so the national birthday is both the nation's most powerful rite of communal identity and merely the lazy and unreflective beginning of high summer...