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...dream shall never die.” In his health care speech in 1978, I heard him excite even the Carter supporters in the room when he attacked the President’s caution: “Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. We cannot afford to drift or lie at anchor. We cannot heed the call of those who say it is time to furl the sail...
...tests, subjects listening to the CD took no longer than 61/2 minutes to drift off. Of course it might take a little longer to do that in a concert hall. "The original idea was to put out beds for the audience so they could completely relax, but we couldn't find the right venue," says organizer Yutaka Nezu. But happily some seats will be available with pillows and blankets. Book them quick on tel: (81-3) 3498 9999. Lots of tired Tokyoites will be vying for them...
...sick, cerebral thrill of ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 241 pages), a dense, fractally complex first novel by the conspicuously talented Rivka Galchen, lies in watching a shrink, one of the trusted guardians of consensus reality, drift out of his lane and into oncoming traffic. Over and over again, Leo's finely calibrated mind analyzes the available data and arrives by the most rigorously logical methods at a series of increasingly demented conclusions. Which makes you realize, queasily, how worthless those methods were in the first place...
Villagers will retrieve a corpse from the river if it is recognized as a family member or a neighbor. The bodies of ten babies, all from Myinkakon, washed up in the days following the cyclone and were buried at a nearby cemetery. Unidentified or unidentifiable corpses drift along the river or snag in vegetation along its banks. "Nobody is collecting them," says Myint Swe. "They're just floating around." There is a rumor, repeated by Myint Swe, that soldiers are not burying the dead, but tossing them back in the river. Just a few feet from these corpses there...
...Politics will always be propelled by grease, hot air and showmanship, but in the astonishing prosperity of the late 20th century, we allowed our public life to drift toward too much show biz, too little substance. Yes, the low-information signals - the bowling and tamale-eating - are crucial; politicians have to show that they are in touch with the lives of average folks. But a balance needs to be struck between carnival populism and the higher demands of democracy, and as a nation, we haven't been very good lately with the serious part of the program. As a result...