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Washington State fisheries report finding tumors in the livers of English sole, which dwell on sediment. Posted signs warn, BOTTOMFISH, CRAB AND SHELLFISH MAY BE UNSAFE TO EAT DUE TO POLLUTION. Lest anyone fail to get the message, the caution is printed in seven languages: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese and Korean...
...goes, through a list of correspondents that includes most of the types who dwell on the literary life's ragged edges. The unpublished writer who aggressively demands that Bradbury read her last seven novels (enclosed) is turned aside with a compliment ("Be reassured, a masochistic and paranoid temperament is a well-known sign of a great writer") and a practical suggestion ("May I recommend a pseudonym -- something like John le Carre"). The young academic confronting his first job interview is reminded that he must dress both down (there is always a raging egalitarian on the committee who resents Oxbridge college...
Bush did not dwell on details of the event in his 30-minute address, but defended the U.S. presence in the gulf and the decision of the ship's captain. He urged Iran and Iraq to accept a year-old, U.N. cease-fire resolution immediately...
...subject, Tyson says, "That's my favorite time, just before. I'm so calm. The work is over. You fight and you go home. Before or after, I don't respect any of them more than another. What they look like doesn't really matter. I never dwell on what's to be done or what's been done. I just don't think of stuff like that. In my heart, I know what...
Ignore, as Jackson's audience did, that he provided no explanation of how to pay for this additional health insurance. Dwell instead on Jackson's oft- repeated formulation "There is something wrong with this nation." That sentiment cuts close to the heart of Jackson's appeal to left-liberals who are wont to use their primary votes to send a message. With the black underclass abandoned to their misery, the homeless sleeping on the streets, factories closing and the affluent unabashed at flaunting their possessions, there is a persistent sense that something is awry with the nation, something far deeper...