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...Imagine for a moment that your daughter needs a bone-marrow transplant and no one can provide a match; that your wife's early menopause has made her infertile; or that your five-year-old has drowned in a lake and your grief has made it impossible to get your mind around the fact that he is gone forever. Would the news then really be so easy to dismiss that around the world, there are scientists in labs pressing ahead with plans to duplicate a human being, deploying the same technology that allowed Scottish scientists to clone Dolly the sheep...
...essence of the man is there: not only the profoundly felt abstractions of military uniforms and insignia like Portrait of a German Officer, 1914, done in mourning for his young German lover killed in the trenches, but also the New Mexico paintings, the Maine seascapes and the plangent, unnerving grief of Eight Bells Folly: Memorial for Hart Crane...
...grief counselors say, get over it. (Bill's and Al's aides, playing out the same melodrama in print and on cable, should too.) For now, at least, Gore's got a leg up for the nomination in 2004 (his argument: I beat Bush once). But Clinton has the grip on the Democrats, having installed his wife in the Senate and his close friend Terry McAuliffe as chair of the party, which might as well be called the Clinton National Committee...
Imagine for a moment that your daughter needs a bone-marrow transplant and no one can provide a match; that your wife's early menopause has made her infertile; or that your five-year-old has drowned in a lake and your grief has made it impossible to get your mind around the fact that he is gone forever. Would the news then really be so easy to dismiss that around the world, there are scientists in labs pressing ahead with plans to duplicate a human being, deploying the same technology that allowed Scottish scientists to clone Dolly the sheep...
There was not much time for grief. Mattresses lined the sidewalks of Ahmadabad, a city of some 5 million, where people were too scared of aftershocks to sleep indoors. Many were having trouble finding drinking water and food. Doctors were overwhelmed. Roads and bridges were damaged, slowing relief efforts. Many volunteers were forced to dig barehanded for survivors...