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...legislators, Moawad, 64, a moderate Maronite Catholic who enjoyed Syria's backing and had served in the Lebanese parliament since 1957, never fled the country to escape the civil war. Conciliatory and a persistent negotiator, he was chosen President in early November by 58 aging Deputies meeting in the mess hall of an abandoned air base...
...kits that sell for $30 to $210. Some of the preparations had an only-in-Hollywood quality. One woman whose emergency gear includes a butane curling iron says she is looking for a battery-operated hair dryer that can be used if electricity is knocked out. "Why look a mess even in a crisis?" she teases...
...city of refugees. More than 100,000 had fled, and 250,000 remained, encamped in parks and fields. Rich and poor alike stood in line at improvised soup kitchens and mess halls. Policemen, soldiers and armed citizens proved all too eager to act on Mayor Eugene Schmitz's order to shoot looters. A few miscreants were killed, and ordinary citizens were forced at gunpoint to work in the cleanup. America and most of the civilized world mourned what ranks as one of the greatest calamities suffered by a U.S. city. In the New York Sun, Will Irwin wrote a eulogy...
...mechanistic approach like Gramm-Rudman is not the real solution to the budget deficit. Says Speaker Foley: "No amount of tinkering with the legislative process can substitute for a commitment to get spending under control. Some people look to procedural changes to get us out of our current mess. Will is what's required." There are no shortcuts on the road back to fiscal responsibility and economic health...
...metaphysics that go ghosting around photography. Taking pictures is a transaction that snatches instants away from time and imprisons them in rectangles. These rectangles become a collective public memory and an image-world that is located usually on the verge of tears, often on the edge of a moral mess...