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...from the Middle East. Many on Capitol Hill have been clamoring to “reduce America’s reliance on foreign oil.” Many Republicans with friends in the oil industry have suggested that the way to do this is to dig in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska—a plan that would take 10 years to produce any oil at all and which would produce a paltry amount compared to the amount America imports. The more sensible plan for reducing dependence on foreign oil is, of course, to reduce consumption. Supporters...
...were just an inch away from a stuff, or from a dig or from a kill,” Bookman said. “But that inch made all the difference...
This, of course, raises the question of why Harvard is playing the anti-Robin Hood and robbing the poor to subsidize the rich. With $18.3 billion comfortably in the bank, shouldn’t Harvard be the party forced to dig a little deeper into its pockets...
...point for understanding Jack Kerouac, his movement and eventually its persistence, is another Dean Moriarty quote from On The Road. “Oh man,” Dean says to Sal in his lyrical way, sitting in a bar and observing the world around him, “Dig the street of life.” Dean’s verbal wonderment captures not only the central metaphor of the work, but the hope for beatnik happiness amid a world of inescapable restrictions...
...There have to be minions of neo-hipsters, as well as earnest scholars of 20th century American literature at Harvard, who . . . would dig this movie,” says Sharples...