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...touched us--that's the thing. As the Friar went on to remark, "So light a foot will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint." She was so lovely to look at. She appeared to be so shy. Like all our children, she seemed to float above the drab and everlasting flintiness of our ordinary lives. Time and again we found ourselves ready to forgive her, just as in the end we always give in and send our wayward offspring another check to pay the telephone bill; and we did it as always with a shrug of the shoulders that...
Jiang Zemin announces plans to float stock in China's state-run enterprises (TIME Daily) ... Clinton nominates CDC director Satcher to fill long-standing surgeon general vacancy (AllPolitics) ... Scots vote overwhelmingly to establish their own parliament after nearly 300 years without one (TIME Daily) ... An angry Senator Jesse Helms resists attempts to force a hearing over William Weld?s ambassador nomination (AllPolitics) ... A federal judge rules American Airlines is liable for compensatory damages because its pilots were negligent in a deadly 1995 Colombia crash (Reuters) ... U.S. Secretary of State Albright urges Israel and the PLO to end their verbal sparring...
...Buff' Chandler...almost singlehanded raised a staggering $18.5 million to build [the Music Center], and organized a company to float another $13.7 million in bonds to finish the job. It was perhaps the most impressive display of virtuoso money-raising...in...U.S. womanhood... 'What is important here tonight,' she said [later that evening], 'is not the fund raising or the building that we are in. The only really important thing here tonight is the music we heard performed. That will go on forever...
...Atlantic City Mayor James Whelan with him, all of them preaching the gospel of small personal sacrifices for the greater public good. If you build it, suckers will come. As will thousands of jobs, millions of dollars in tax revenues and a rising tide of new prosperity that "will float all boats," as Whitman's flack says...
Buoyed by a collective resolve to love it, Oxford continues to float lightly, seemingly invincible to the world outside...