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...this is innocuous enough. Nevertheless, there is a grander message lurking beneath this madness--and it's a disturbing one. The picture of America that emerges Seurat-like from the Index is one of a nation suffering from what only can be termed malaise...
...West Germans plan to celebrate that progress with lavish hospitality, even though three new technical accords are the only formal agreements expected to emerge from Honecker's trip. His trip is classified as a "working visit," but Honecker will be accorded most of the trappings normally reserved for grander state visits, including lunch with President Richard von Weizsacker, meetings with leaders of the Bundestag and five hours of talks with Kohl. Bonn quickly acceded to one Honecker request: coffee and cake at the Essen home of Berthold Beitz, chairman of the Krupp steel empire, with whom he has developed...
...Celeste actually run, they become dwarfs like everyone else. The press will see to that." There is also the obverse effect, an optical illusion called the Sidelines Magnifier. When the Cuomos and Bradleys and Nunns stay out, wrapped in the dignity of duty or humility, they seem so much grander than those scurrying after votes and donations...
Jetties can cause beach larceny on an even grander scale. Long concrete or rock structures, they jut out into the water to keep inlets and harbors navigable by keeping sand and silt from drifting in. Like groin fields, jetties can keep sand from replenishing beaches down current. The construction 90 years ago of a pair of jetties to improve the harbor at Charleston, S.C., altered currents and natural sand drift so drastically that there is no beach left at high tide at nearby Folly Beach. In Florida an estimated 80% to 85% of the beach erosion on the state...
Well, one could go on, but the point is that the civil docket still makes room for more than whiplash, malpractice, what have you, still accommodates the citizen who has nothing grander to gain than the Republic's concession that he was right and it was wrong, which is pretty grand. In Louisiana, a Vietnamese schoolgirl, no bigger than a pencil sharpened to a nub, had no larger scheme than to publish a newspaper for the "out crowd" at her Louisiana high school, but she ran afoul of her principal nonetheless. In California, a black entrepreneur who sports a thick...