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Residents who had to flee their homes were anxious to get back, but authorities cautioned that houses should first be inspected for water moccasins. They also wanted to be sure that none of the alligators that inhabit the Flint River had taken a liking to suburban living. "It's going to be a long time before things get back to normal around here," said city councilman Jack Henderson of Newton as he steered a boat through the town's / streets. The Rivertrace Restaurant and Oyster Bar was gone altogether, and the only sign of city hall was a vent pipe...
...series, the epitome of suburban domesticity. So firmly did she imprint that character that she was forever unable to convincingly play anyone except the cheerful wife and mother who left no spots on the glasses or her children's psyches. By the time Reed tried to inhabit the skin of Miss Ellie in Dallas, it was impossible to believe that she could have brought forth a lout like J.R. She had become a victim of typecasting...
Americans inhabit, so to speak, two parallel realities. There is the virtual reality created by media spinning and cultural circuses and gladiatorial spectacles of exemplary pseudomoral combat (Harding v. Kerrigan, Bobbitt v. Bobbitt) -- an intimate cartoonish universe where the member is severed and sewn back on. And then there is the reality of . . . reality. Places like, say, Bosnia and Haiti belong to the reality of reality...
...focusing public attention on a potential threat to the stability of the world's financial markets: the wild growth of derivatives ((COVER STORIES, April 11)). These complex new investment instruments have become so esoteric that only those who live in cyberspace can possibly fathom them. Since most of us inhabit the real world, we're fortunate that there are reporters who can alert us earthlings to the danger. Properly used, derivatives can lessen volatility. But $14 trillion floating around the world unaccounted for could lead to a financial meltdown. Congressional oversight is needed...
Prudence is better than idealism. Mansfield and Paglia reject the naivete of idealism and advocate prudence instead. Prudence is a political and personal virtue suited for real humans who inhabit a world filled with danger, risk, irrationality, prejudice, conflict and instability. Other words for prudence are realism, common sense and street smarts...