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...firms. "All I wanted to do was go home. I thought I would hang out my shingle in Hot Springs and see if I could run for office." But a teacher at Yale said the University of Arkansas needed new faculty, and Clinton called the dean from the interstate highway as he was driving to Hot Springs. The dean said Clinton was too young, and he answered, "Well, I'm that, but I'll teach anything you need for now, and I'm not interested in tenure, so I'll be no problem. It's a one-year deal...
...because direct democracy is such a manipulatable sham that every two-bit Mussolini adopts it as his own. Pomp and plebiscites. The Duce and the people. No need for the messy stuff in between. Not for nothing did the Founders abhor direct democracy. They knew it to be a highway to tyranny...
...side, near the monastery where Christopher Columbus was once buried, rise the extravagant pavilions of the Universal Exposition. There, 250 fountains gurgle, 325,000 newly planted trees and shrubs shade the weary, and 96 restaurants replenish the hungry. But once over the bridge, sidewalks crumble and the highway dead-ends in a stinking garbage dump known as El Vacie. Within earshot of Expo 92's loudspeakers, 500 Sevillians elbow one another for their daily water ration from a small fountain...
...romance of the plow will endure in memory. It is too great a legend to lose. Besides, some land will still need plowing. Down Highway 70 below Bowling Green near tiny Frenchtown, Bill Goettemoeller's family feeds 1,000 head of cattle, and it is necessary to plow in the manure and straw from the feedlots, though even the Goettemoellers plow only about half as much land as they used...
...HIGHWAY...