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...author seems to be asking: "Shall the meek inherit the earth?" Like any other profound allegory, Life and Times of Michael K leaves the question it poses unanswered. But the warning it sounds of Armageddon resonates with uncommon power...
...union members in the fading domestic steel industry; following heart surgery; in Whitehall, Pa. After quitting school at 14, he went to work in a St. Louis foundry for 250 an hour, became an active unionist who rose through the ranks and survived a bitter insurgency fight to inherit I.W. Abel's mantle only to see the Steelworkers' membership plummet by half during his term from a 1979 high of 1.4 million...
...debaters yesterday found themselves arguing such resolutions as "The kid is not my son," "I stink, therefore I am:" "It is the burnout of almost everyone;" and "The meek shall inherit the mirth...
Kerr added that he expected Rajah's soon to be conceived off spring to inherit its father's same charm. Hill said that since the bee pollen has been so successful, the group will visit the National Zoo in Washington. D.C. next week and offer the brown tablets to the frigid pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing
Judy Granberg was to inherit no financial worries. Her husband, it turned out, had insured himself over the years with six insurance companies for $750,000. Judy quickly shifted into a faster lane. Instead of the family's old Ford Granada, she began driving a gray $50,000 Mercedes. She enrolled her children in the New York Military Academy, a coed private school. The family traveled around the country in high style, staying at hotels and eating in chic restaurants. She changed their name to Brent, sold her home and rented a garden townhouse in Cornwall...