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Then what? Well . . . not all that much, if one is to judge from the precedents set by the two Hoover commissions under Truman and Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter's zero-based budgeting plan, and the Grace Commission, which reported to Ronald Reagan. Some of these efforts did produce worthwhile reforms. But all were frustrated by the realities of the Washington power game. The savvy and iron-bottomed persistence of bureaucrats in protecting their turf is nothing short of awe inspiring. So is the jealousy with which Congress guards its power to spell out for government agencies, in the most niggling detail...
...youngest and the freshest of America's regions, magnificently endowed and with a chance to become something unprecedented." And he wrote, "Nothing would gratify me more than to see it . . . both prosperous and environmentally healthy, with a civilization to match its scenery." If the Rockies find that state of grace, the cry around America will continue to be "Head for the hills...
...recent essay in L'espresso, an Italian news magazine, Eco finds this unusual emotion dating to a Pagan conception of honor, in the city-states of Greece, taking one's life was a heroic response to a fall from grace. Suicide represented a recognition of grave wrongdoing, and more significantly, a moral catharsis, the individual would regain his honor in society by taking his life, and would preserve respect in the memory of his name...
Leonard, who faces up to five years in prison, has agreed to pay $15 million in restitution. He also confronts new charges by the state of Connecticut that his emporium short-weighted hundreds of food packages. Even so, nobody expects Leonard's fall from grace to hamper the business. "We were packed today," chirps son Stew Jr. "Our customers are extremely supportive and sympathetic." And at Stew's, the customer is always right. It says so on the three-ton tablet of granite at the store's entrance. And it's firmly believed by the hundreds of positive-thinking Dale...
...reason. Whales have always been too magnificent and mysterious to be seen as just another animal. They look like fish but suckle their young; they're intelligent, communicating with an eerie array of sounds; and, of course, all but the smallest are humblingly huge, the largest creatures to grace the earth since the demise of the dinosaurs...