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...often asked after a Baghdad trip why these hard-pressed people don't rebel against Saddam. The middle class has fallen the furthest and would seem to be a vast pool of potential discontent. But U.S. agents have attempted to stir them to rebellion with scant success. That the middle class is not in a revolutionary mood is understandable when you pair the severe U.N. economic sanctions with the government's preoccupation with protecting its internal security. Their priority is the struggle for sustenance for themselves and their families, a daily struggle that leaves little room for other than dreaming...
...last book on my nightstand, and the one furthest out of my normal range, is called Godel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas R. Hofstader. It won the Pulitzer Prize in the early 1980s and ties together math, art and music through images of endlessly looping equations, drawings and musical canons. I've slugged through about 200 pages of it. Although it's starting to get into deep computer theory, which is difficult to read, it's still interesting...
...bitten off more," as NASA's Gary Payton put it. All three contenders proposed a fully reusable vehicle (the current shuttle jettisons its expensive boosters and fuel tank). All three eliminated astronauts (although people, as pilots or passengers, could be added later). Lockheed, however, pushed the envelope the furthest. Much like the experimental aircraft of the 1970s, the entire surface of the stubby, wingless craft is used to create lift, saving fuel and permitting a slower, cooler descent. This in turn enables Lockheed to replace the present shuttle's pesky ceramic tiles with a reusable metallic sheath...
Fortunately, the artists who have chosen to travel this road have tended, almost by definition, to be staunchly independent--and, given the chance, audiences have often responded. Hendrix, who early on played guitar in Little Richard's band, built a cultural bridge that links the deepest blues to the furthest reaches of psychedelia. Sylvester Stewart, the indomitable Sly of the multiracial Sly and the Family Stone, mixed a hugely influential blend of funk and rock 'n' roll. And certainly no one could ever accuse the Artist Formerly Known as Prince--the moniker itself says it all--of caving...
...Steve Merrill, clad in green parka and walking across a snow-covered suburban yard, accusing Forbes of proposing a plan that would rob citizens of their cherished property-tax deduction. Meanwhile, Dole himself reserved his swipes for Bill Clinton and "the elites in charge" but ignored Steve Forbes. The furthest Dole would go was in Nashua, New Hampshire, where he said of the Forbes phenom that "it's like a new restaurant. You try it out. But in a couple weeks, the gravy doesn't taste right. The rolls are hard." The selling point of Dole's message was, once...