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This crawling position has been a frequent one this summer. One evening, a friend and I set out for the park. Certainly, I thought, a park would offer no hurdles, necessarily being on the ground floor and having no obstacles but the grass and a bench. However, when we arrived I noticed that it was also roped off--this time by thick wire at about mid-thigh. While I remember being lifted over this boundary as a small child, as I got older, I had not even noticed hopping over it on the way into the park. Now, in another...
...this a wonderful thing? Familiar pieties collide here, two wisdoms, good news and bad news: 1) Peaceful mobility on a planetary scale proclaims victories for freedom, democratic pluralism, frequent-flyer programs and unfettered competitive markets; 2) A radioactive cloud of banalizing sameness threatens the earth; the sacred and beautiful places, all the uniquenesses, have been invaded, desacralized, franchised for the masses, dissolved into the United Colors of Benetton...
...Kirov and the Bolshoi were rarely glimpsed, they had a potent aura of mystery. Classical ballet and the music of Tchaikovsky were, after all, their heritage. When a Nureyev or a Baryshnikov fled the country, people imagined that the Kirov was full of such melancholy geniuses. Now, with frequent touring, it is easy to decide for oneself the quality of the emperor's clothes...
...fight to preserve funding for the local family-education center. "If your situation is subject to so much financial instability, then why did you have three children?" he wrote back, expressing the concern of taxpayers. "Why is your husband in a line of work that subjects him to 'frequent layoffs'? Why, in the face of your husband's ability to parent as a result of his frequent layoffs, are you refusing to work outside the home? Why should the taxpayer foot the bill [for such education programs...
...silver tray that drops down from publishing heaven. On HarperCollins' tab (backed by an advertising, marketing and promotion budget of $500,000), Gingrich was looking at the Four Seasons and the Ritz Carlton, according to publicist Steve Sorrentino. On his own nickel, the Speaker may be using up his frequent-flyer miles and wolfing down Big Macs. "Newt isn't rich," says Jim Baen, the nonrich publisher of Gingrich's novel 1945, who should not be confused with the very rich publisher of Gingrich's nonfiction title To Renew America, Rupert Murdoch. Says Baen: "He should flaunt his poverty...