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...presentation using slave chains a Harvard professor once loaned to him. "We all have a responsibility to break chains, real ones and invisible ones," he once announced at a men's prison. "It must be done in classrooms and in jail cells...everybody can break chains." With a glimmer in his eye, he asserts that at this moment a riot broke out in the prison. "A coincidence maybe, but this is what happens to a storyteller; if you give your life to storytelling, stories start happening around you." As an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a Boylston Prize...
...That's your river," the driver of the pick-up that had picked me up said, angling his head toward the silver glimmer amongst the roadside trees. "Haack sthu!" He dappled the road with a jowlful of juice from his Day's Work chewing tobacco. He had been a psychiatric social worker in Pennsylvania, he told me, consumed by a love affair with the Smoky Mountains, so when he retired he moved south to settle in the hills and woods of western North Carolina. He was a strange one, this pick-up trucker with long white hair and a stringy...
...that serves as a ring. The bets are in, the bruisers battle: it's no holds barred-kicking, hair-pulling, and annihilating past the point of all reason; just don't kick a man when he's down. Bronson watches from a distance and there is no sign, no glimmer of what he thinks or feels...
...yeah, they're good records, but not great records." And then a glimmer of the old Pat McInally appeared. "It was more the way I made the records than the records themselves-- one-hand grabs, clutch catches. They don't show up in the records. That's what I stand...
Despite the improvement in utility finances, executives at the Denver meeting could not cite a single canceled project that has been reinstated. And even if all the projects were rescheduled, they would represent the barest glimmer of the nation's power needs. Over the next 15 years, according to some estimates, utilities ought to invest a staggering $750 billion in new plants. No one seems to have much idea how they can raise the money. W. Donham Crawford, president of the Edison Institute, notes that most utility stocks are still selling for less than book value, a situation that...