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...they curse the ooze underfoot. It is a time to kayak on flooded rivers, to boil maple sap, to do some spring cleaning (Vermonters say, with reason, "I'm going to hoe out my house"). It is a time to stand outside in fresh air hinting of the grass and lilacs to come, and to be hugely entertained by the sight of neighbors and innocent strangers dealing with...
...legislators are reacting to grass-roots sentiment that has led 31 states-three short of the number needed-to pass resolutions demanding that a constitutional convention be called to write a balanced-budget amendment. The trouble with such a convention is that it could not be limited to that one issue. For that reason, most congressional supporters of the amendment would rather follow the traditional path of having it passed by two-thirds of the House and the Senate and then ratified by at least 38 states within seven years. Opponents of the amendment had thought, before the President spoke...
...question of solvency, once the initial funds are gone. Will new subsidies appear? Or can the library somehow become selfsupporting? Answers are several years away. In the meantime, readers can watch Melville develop into the author of Moby Dick and observe Whitman tinkering with and expanding Leaves of Grass. All of Hawthorne's eerie, ambiguous short fiction can be tucked into a purse or briefcase. Harriet Beecher Stowe never looked better, nor did Uncle Tom's Cabin, the melodramatic novel that abetted a war. That is not a bad beginning for a publishing project resting on a slim...
...started as a grass roots movement in Vermont, rushed through New Hampshire. Massachusetts, California and even penetrated the ivy-covered walls of Harvard itself...
...mixed smell of grass and sweat lets you know spring and sports are in the air. But it's not just the skinned knees, twisted ankles, and getting hit on the head by a frisbee that makes springtime sports so much fun. There's also the challenge of putting on your sneakers, heading down to the river and wondering: Can I keep up a good pace through the house courtyard until I'm out of sight? Can I avoid being mowed down by over-zealous roller skaters? And can I hit the traffic lights at the right time...