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...past you could drape something under a sheet in the middle of the room and they wouldn’t find it,” Traugott said...
...speech, Bush plans to drape his arms around the entire nation, Democrats included. In an upgrade of his "Communities of Character" initiative that was shelved because of the September attacks, Bush will propose a range of volunteer programs aimed at harnessing the reawakened desire of many Americans to serve their community and give to charity. His big idea: to expand the Corporation for National and Community Service, which Bill Clinton created with the youth-service program Americorps...
...precious, is that there is evidence we are willing to do the hard work by choice, not just because we have to. And so the year can end, and the fires go out at last at ground zero, and Liberty Island reopens, and soldiers guarding the airport at Kandahar drape mine tape on tumbleweed for a Christmas tree and raise a huge American flag, inscribed with the names of slain men and women. Our job is by no means finished. But Rudy Giuliani's is, not because his term is ending but because maybe we have passed the first test...
...precious, is that there is evidence we are willing to do the hard work by choice, not just because we have to. And so the year can end, and the fires go out at last at ground zero, and Liberty Island reopens, and soldiers guarding the airport at Kandahar drape mine tape on tumbleweed for a Christmas tree and raise a huge American flag, inscribed with the names of slain men and women. Our job is by no means finished. But Rudy Giuliani's is, not because his term is ending but because maybe we have passed the first test...
...personalities and antics of these three mobile musicians essentially carry the show, veritably providing all tangible elements of humor or rage that drape, satisfactorily enough, across the flimsy clothesline of the songs. The performers are full of energy, though where the energy is coming from is a bit unclear; not from the music itself, certainly, which early on blurs into a mush of pulsing sounds, none of which particularly complement each other. The entire show, consequently, feels literally out of sync. I knew we were done for when Mitchell started a little exercise routine right there on stage?...