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...McBride was supplying the rhythmic intensity for both bassists. He was like a champion swimmer who breaks the record swimming with one arms while carrying a floundering swimmer in the other. Thomas grew exasperated trying to match McBride's brilliance, and he wittily "gave up" after a particularly difficult flourish, playing four discordant quarter notes and making eyes at the audience. With his typical good humor, McBride first annihilated his competition and then cooperated with Thomas to play a rousing spontaneous duet that brought the encote and the evening to smashing
...fashionable formula these days is modestly priced government help that lets private enterprise flourish in poor neighborhoods. Waters wants loan-guarantee programs that encourage banks to lend in poor communities. "People in our community have little stores,'' says Waters. "We need to multiply that thousands of times over." Kemp wants to eliminate the capital-gains tax for businesses that locate in urban-enterprise zones, where government offers tax breaks and other incentives to bring employers to poor neighborhoods. The Republican budget passed last week by the Senate Finance Committee contains $245 billion worth of tax breaks targeted largely to middle...
...reaction to Farrakahn. It is not unusual to hear whites saying, in effect, "Now that it's clear they hate us, it's O.K. for us to hate them." Glenn Loury, a conservative black thinker and Boston University professor, says, "Farrakhan makes it more respectable for white racism to flourish." That is a cop-out both blacks and whites must work to resist. "The threat to American democracy is not black racism," Loury says. "It's white racism...
Republicans may have entered the slaphappy phase of their revolution, killing regulations simply because they can. Indeed, the nursing-home industry has not even asked for regulatory relief, in part because it would allow unscrupulous operators to flourish and bring shame on all of them. But Speaker Gingrich is hurtling along, fearless about sending Mom and Dad back to the future, to the day of nursing homes that lack nurses and feel nothing like home...
...actually believed in the promise of cyberspace--that we could reach out over the barriers of age, race, geography and gender, and truly connect. No one would ever be lonely anymore. Writing would become a mass art form. Democracy would flourish as millions of people logged on to the vast, bubbling, uncensored online debate. I didn't know that much of what goes on online would turn out to be "utter drivel," as disillusioned cyberpioneer Clifford Stoll now concludes in his book Silicon Snake Oil, or "flame wars" of crude and escalating insults, or, of course, cybersex with Beavis...