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...York's problems are a memento mori to other state and local governments. Last week neighboring New Jersey and Pennsylvania were suffering through difficulties that, though less acute than New York's, reflected common themes-an inability to compromise, a breakdown in the eleventh-hour bargaining that used to work when governments, unions and taxpayers came to the brink. On a more fundamental level, the problems suggested that states and cities are more and more coming up against very hard choices: What public services must be dispensed with or cut back if there is simply not the money...
...rhythms. That can be a mistake, even for real captains: one bright afternoon in 1971, the Antilles, a 20,000-ton French cruise liner, rammed a reef between the islands of Mustique and Carriacou at full steam, and its hulk still lies in the sun as a sobering memento mori...
Advertising is a world halfway be tween Disney and Dante. White Knights gallop through suburbia, housewives are absolved for ring around the collar, and stars and cowboys blissfully pull on their weeds, oblivious to the Surgeon Gener al's little memento mori in the corner -"dangerous to your health." The Fed eral Trade Commission, which has long labored to deflate the more extravagant pitches, last week published proposed guidelines to ensure that any celebrity shilling a product actually uses the thing if he or she claims...
...Bison's top players are All-Americans Keith Hequi and Alvin Henderson, both from Trinidad. Freshman Ian Bain, also from Trinidad and Guinea's Mori Biane round out Howard's forward wall. Strong goalkeeping has been provided this season by Samuel Tetteh from Ghana...
...aspects of a secular, almost pagan holiday-a sense of propitiating an earth increasingly incapable of forgiving what man has inflicted upon it. Much of Earth Day was festive and faddish; yet it touched the American imagination with a memento mori, a vision primitive as trilobites and novel as the idea of a windless, uninhabited earth orbiting...