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...variety of ways by hundreds of different officials. And a whopping messiness--a mess of unprecedented proportions--did indeed result. But the laws were there to regulate it. And under the law, George Bush won Florida. This is not to say that he won in the sense of cosmic certainty, under the aspect of eternity, in the sight of an all-knowing being. Cosmic certainty is denied to human beings. In its place--a poor substitute, I admit--they have laws...
...Chardonnay, pinot noir and pinot meunier, for example, are the usual grapes found in champagne; L. Aubry uses the obscure grapes fromenteau, arbanne and petit meslier for some of its champagnes. Fleury Pere & Fils adopts organic and biodynamic growing methods, which it claims open "the soil and vines to cosmic influences...
...knock this. Specialist invention has given millions of us the highest standard of living in history. And not just at the gizmo level. Now and again, deep in the epistemological woodwork, mind-numbingly arcane fields mix and mingle to produce cosmic upheaval with startling new realms of crossbred knowledge: astrophysics, biogeography, psychopharmacology, neurochemistry, paleobotany. This is to be expected. There are more scientists and technologists alive today than in the whole of previous history, and they have as much right to a happy and productive life as the rest...
...There is an old axiom: much law, little justice. We like to think the law provides some measure of justice, and sometimes it does. But justice is a more cosmic principle than what the law embraces. The law is good for figuring out the penalty for jaywalking but not for adjudicating each of our just deserts...
...millennium as a time to confront their colonial past. Look to Cathy, they said. Freeman accepted the responsibility. One way to consider it is, while Marion Jones was trying to win five gold medals for herself and the greater prosperity of Nike Inc., Freeman's crusade had become cosmic. Even before the gun went off, hers had become the most significant race, in a political sense, since Jesse Owens shredded Adolf Hitler's Aryan showcase at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin...