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...narcosis, a state of mental impairment that afflicts divers below 70 ft. or so. Kurson takes us into the gossipy, cliquey subculture of hard-core wreck divers, men who can come to blows over a chipped teacup from a sunken cruise ship. He also expends a fair amount of ink trying to explain why anybody would risk so much for so little. The answer boils down to a desire to explore the shadowy depths of one's inner being, or something like that, but whatever. It's summertime; let's get to the good stuff...
...Benjamin Disraeli’s phrase, one of “two nations” is not surprising, but it’s not enough to see it through A Clockwork Orange’s blood-colored lens, or even in Dickens’ soot-tinged ink. Once, his dirty, patchwork metropolis of chimney sweeps and scofflaws was no more impressive to me than the broad, imperial tones of a history textbook or a Lord Soandso (chancellor, historian, poet, collector of exotic birds) majestically painting the background of the Imperial City, with its thatch roofs, flying buttresses...
...based on their own view of economic self-interest, not the tax code's. By the end of Reagan's term, the ground had shifted to the point that it became all but impossible for politicians to propose big new spending programs in the face of so much red ink. "Reagan's policies," said Stanford economist Michael Boskin, "were all designed to do what public policy could do to transform a badly ailing economy into a highly competitive...
...said recently, "the biggest humanitarian catastrophe in the western hemisphere." Legislation pending in the Colombian Congress, which the AUC rejects, calls for paramilitary members to be prosecuted in Colombia for the civilian massacres they've committed. But U.S. officials also urge the government of President Alvaro Uribe not to ink any agreement that exempts paramilitary leaders from extradition to the U.S. for drug trafficking. Unless the AUC's narcobosses are put behind bars, U.S. officials insist, the paramilitary fighters will become the new big cats of the Colombian cocaine trade, successors to infamous Medellín and Cali cartels. They...
...Summers may have more than just his philosophical imprint on the report—his red-ink may lie between the report’s lines...