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...quasi-autobiography. "The Education of Henry Adams," was still widely read as an American classic in 1958--arrived at Harvard College exactly 100 years ahead of us, in 1854. He complained later in life that he had been caught on the wrong side of a kind of historical fault line, the breakpoint between two tectonic plates. Great-grandson of the second President of the United States and grandson of the sixth, he was equipped by birth with all that 18th century American had to offer. Yet he had to live almost all of his life, Adams complained, in a time...
...quasi-autobiography. "The Education of Henry Adams," was still widely read as an American classic in 1958--arrived at Harvard College exactly 100 years ahead of us, in 1854. He complained later in life that he had been caught on the wrong side of a kind of historical fault line, the breakpoint between two tectonic plates. Great-grandson of the second President of the United States and grandson of the sixth, he was equipped by birth with all that 18th century American had to offer. Yet he had to live almost all of his life, Adams complained, in a time...
...evening wore on, Domenici modified his proposal only enough to let it qualify technically as a new one. If there was no agreement, he warned, "we will get veto after veto." The fault finding should stop, he argued, and the budget process should be saved. But Democrat Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, who rarely gets angry, railed at the Republican deficits. "If this deficit had been presented by Jimmy Carter," he shouted, "there would have been a serious outcry for his impeachment." Finally, the Domenici proposal was defeated again...
...self-critical apology to readers from Publisher Henri Nannen, who the week before had blamed Heidemann and all but disavowed responsibility. Nannen, who founded the magazine in 1948, wrote, in the Latin once used by Roman Catholics in confessing their sins, "Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa "(my fault, my grievous fault). He explained the management's collective lapse of judgment as the product of "a bunker mentality." The magazine's renewed coverage of an episode that Nannen had hoped to forget was in fact forced by embittered employees, who for six days symbolically occupied Stern's editorial...
...quake's epicenter was about seven miles northeast of Coalinga, some 20 miles from California's San Andreas Fault. Said State Geologist James F. Davis: "We don't believe that the stress regime is related to the San Andreas." Loose translation: the Coalinga quake did nothing to relieve the slow buildup of forces along the fault that virtually all scientists believe will eventually result in a major quake (8 or higher on the Richter scale...