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...WEST, RUSSIA DECIDED TO MAKE its ruble convertible to foreign currencies for the first time in nearly seven decades. The goal is to free the price of the ruble to float, possibly as early as Aug. 1, though most experts say the process could take longer. Moscow is counting on the measure to attract foreign investors who will then be able to calculate real prices and costs. They will also be able to take profits -- if they make any -- out of the country...
Unable to engage our ideas in a serious, critical discussion, they are reduced to calling us names. They float the archaic image of hysterical women in an effort to delegitimize our fight to stop the violence and to reclaim our lives...
...they do. People lift each other up, are buoyed up onto the surface of the crowd, then sink back. Kowalcyzk steps off the stage and lolls around on the human pool, seeming to float weightlessly on his back. He grins at the teenagers who carpet his way back to the stage as he crawls over them...
...Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut had a fantasy that time and gravity could be reversed, and that the bombs rained down upon Europe in World War II could reassemble themselves. The billions of blasted fragments would magically recombine, rescinding the destruction they had done. The bombs, made whole again, would float up into the bomb bays of the planes that had dropped them, and the planes would fly backward, back home, where the bombs would be disassembled and all their metals and explosive powders redeposited in the earth so they would be harmless and all the death would be repealed...
...Many residents, black and white, believe Taylor and her allies have badly misplaced New Orleans' priorities at a time when crime, housing and other ills are at a peak. "The city's falling apart, and they go after one of the few things that are still really working," complained float designer Henri Schindler. Agreed carnival historian Errol Laborde: "We were just getting over the David Duke mess, and this hits. This has turned brother against brother for no good reason...