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...parallel shift in the culture suggests that Clinton-era values are no longer America's. Though a baby boomer, Bush rejects the instant-gratification ethic embraced by Clinton, the nation's first baby boomer President. Bush went from party-hearty frat boy to hard liquor--drinking Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (until he shaped up in his 40s) without stopping to dabble in the counterculture or go anywhere in a VW bus. He often laments not being one of the Greatest Generation he so admires (although he was no more up front about not going to Vietnam than...
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...House of Commons. "We have been met with action that is wrong ... and puts lives at risk." But the very people whose lives were at risk seemed largely unperturbed. Although seven people were killed in fires - about average for any 48-hour period - almost nobody was blaming the firemen. Instant T.V. opinion polls showed about half of all Britons sided with the strikers. (It helped that few people were seriously inconvenienced; tube and train lines remained open.) Across the country, motorists driving past picket lines honked in solidarity. Public sympathy strengthened FBU leader Andy Gilchrist's resolve to hold...
...year-olds in the prime of life intubated in an emergency room somewhere because their autonomic nervous system has shut down and they can’t breathe. It is broken bones and internal bleeding from accidents with automobiles. It is promising young people in an instant having their lives changed forever as they commit or become victims of crimes that would not have happened if they had been sober. The beer-ad world is one designed by corporations to sell beer, not to be sure you have fun. The real world of drunkenness...
...highlight came on his double-loop, double-overtime game-winning goal against Brown. The play, which punched Harvard’s ticket to Lake Placid, became an instant Crimson classic...