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...also urge the administration to provide the funding necessary for some of Johnson's other, more costly proposals. Although the Administration may groan that its budget is tight, Johnson's initiatives may eventually prove themselves to be one of the most cost-effective measures this University has taken in a long time...
...first answer is that he has done something quite different and not nearly as engaging. Borderliners (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 277 pages; $22) opens with a question that may seem, to most readers, groan inducing: "What is time?" The query comes from a narrator whose name is Peter (a detail he drops a third of the way through his story). Now a grown man, he looks back on himself at age 14, an orphan who, after a brief lifetime in various institutions, has unexpectedly been sent to Biehl's Academy, a prestigious school on the outskirts of Copenhagen...
...invariably filled with sound and fury that only add to the confusion. The business of government, Stamaty says, "is so massive and complex that our public dialogue often gets boiled down to an absurd and insufficient shorthand." That being the case, we invite you to laugh -- and to groan -- along with...
...last 20 years, American foreign policy has suffered from an indelible stigma. Whenever the United States sends forces abroad as peace-keepers, oil-preservers, or dictator-removers, politicos and pundits with long memories groan about "another Vietnam." Well, there isn't going to be another Vietnam in Bosnia or Somalia or even East Timor--things have changed...
...front of the TV, where she sleeps at night, and where the girls dutifully pull up a table at meal times. Meanwhile, the house, which Mr. Grape built and died in, has rotted to the point where it can no longer bear Momma's weight; the floorboards begin to groan and shake under her occasional heavy footsteps...