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...tears. Indochina, Algeria, Kenya, India--all convinced Europeans of two things. First, military might was incapable of forcing foreign lands into habits that suited the imperial power. Second, imperialism soured domestic life. It fueled racism and privileged those with commercial interests in the colonies. It meant accepting a steady drip of deaths in little colonial wars and required large, expensive standing armies...
...legacy and the rhetoric of the civil rights movement…Now terms like “equal playing field,” “racial justice,” “equal opportunity,” and, most ominous, “color-blind” drip from the lips of formerly stalwart segregationist politicians…and intellectually hired guns.” Similarly, many are seeking to apply this “perverse ingenuity” to broader national opinion as they preside over what they hope will be a societal funeral for black self...
...care and feeding. Her first, Zack McCoy, is plainly modeled on Jackson Pollock. The wounded god of Abstract Expressionism, he moves from early struggles in New York City to vexed triumphs on the sunlit east end of Long Island. There McCoy/Pollock has his breakthrough to the drip paintings that bring him fame, which arrives at his door with its jaws open...
...make an initial assessment of the client's condition." Once in Zurich, Dignitas members are taken by Minelli to a simply furnished apartment, where they are provided with the barbiturates. To avoid potential murder charges, clients must swallow the drug or open the valve on an IV drip themselves. Two witnesses are present - a Dignitas staff member and a relative of the client - to make sure this procedure is followed. Although the process sounds cold and clinical, "it's bittersweet and peaceful," says Johanna, a 38-year-old homemaker from Bremen, Germany, who accompanied her mother to Zurich earlier this...
...went to Drip because it sounded like a gas, something different to do," says widowed kindergarten teacher Jaki Williams Florsheim, 58. She had her first date with divorced accountant Henry Florsheim, 54, at the cafe in 1999. She had asked to meet him after reading his profile. They were married a year later and now live in Brooklyn, N.Y. "If you had told me that I would meet my husband through a place like Drip," she says, "I would have said you had to be kidding...