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Want to write a thesis? First consider the last-minute costs: Thesis paper, acid-free: $13.50/100 sheets Printer ink: $99.95(Mac), $139.95 (HP) Zip disks: $29.99/2 Index cards: $1.69 Post-It TM page Markers: 3.99 Highlighters: $1.19 Coffee: about $1/cup...
...trained in the techniques of traditional Chinese ink-and-water painting...
...trained in the techniques of traditional Chinese ink-and-water painting...
...only to be shut out again when Rubin arrived back in town. An aide to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright regularly worked the phones during last summer's Russian collapse, insisting that reporters were missing the story--Albright's involvement in economic policy. No one spent an ounce of ink on it. But other Administration officials say they are comfortable with the power balance. Says Gene Sperling, head of the National Economic Council: "You are often in a situation where other people far less experienced are coming in with very simple solutions, sure things that are going to work...
...captured in the phrase "forgotten leafy speech," an image which charms with the power of forgotten myth, an alibi against any accusations po-mo linguistic pretension. By recalling sleep, dreams, unrecoverable history (see "About Troy") and the personalities of dumb material objects (see "Elegy for the Departure of Pen Ink and Lamp"), Herbert selects the very topics that demand linguistic self-consciousness, save that topic of genocide and terror which Adorno famously said would make "all lyricafter the holocaust...barbaric...