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...Milltown teaches the walking wounded of Belfast anything, it is the finality of death. Weaving one's way through the cramped gray stones and overgrown plots, surveying the slope almost entirely covered with casualties of street violence, it is impossible not to covet the small space of empty grass at the bottom of the hill. Whether this desire for peace prompted by exhaustion is enough to build a just government remains to be seen...
...looks of it, most of us were there in Harvard Yard last Friday when Nelson Mandela received an honorary degree. The day was shining, the Yard decked with flags and flowers, and the grass still hasn't recovered from the weight of the 25,000 people who heard Mandela speak. The ceremony was essentially Commencement in the fall: seniors were given reserved seats, the dais was lined with Harvard's specialists in appropriate fields and the program, rife with preliminary speakers and musical interludes, was as reflective and inspirational as a Commencement valedictory. And, of course, just like all Harvard...
Lewinsky was getting worried about all those gifts--souvenirs from Martha's Vineyard, a special edition of Leaves of Grass. She testified that on Dec. 28, during an early-morning meeting with Clinton at the White House, she asked him if she should "put the gifts away outside my house somewhere or give them to someone, maybe Betty." Clinton responded, "I don't know" or "Let me think about that." Later that day Currie called Monica and said, according to Lewinsky, either "I understand you have something to give me" or "The President said you have something to give...
...kiss me, because...it had been a long time since we had been alone." The President told her to wait a moment, as he had pres- ents for her. As belated Christmas gifts, he gave her a hat pin and a special edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass... Ms. Lewinsky testified that after the President gave her the gifts, they had a sexual encounter...
...already deeper and broader than Russia's. Deng Xiaoping initiated capitalist changes back in 1979, when he legalized farmers' markets. As a result, China's agricultural sector is far more productive than Russia's. Diverse village and township enterprises have spread what is effectively private enterprise deep into the grass roots of the country, in a way not yet imagined outside Russia's major cities...