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...political hero in a democratic society? While pursuing that caprice, he left the water, sewer and electricity networks in dire condition. You're right that he has leveled hundreds of illegal buildings, particularly in the city center, but these were mostly houses of poor and powerless people, who needless to say were not offered any alternative places to live. Illegal building by the rich and powerful is flourishing - even skyscrapers! A similar pattern is evident in our streets and sidewalks: rebuilt mostly in the business district, while the rest are full of holes, lack drains and are not much more...
...uncertainty about the world around us. All of a sudden, thoughts like, “Is the human body really 60 percent water?” (seems unlikely) and “Do dogs experience time seven times faster than humans?” (probably) seemed incredibly pertinent. Needless to say, we didn’t find any conclusive answers. Like Agent Scully and Detective Mulder in the X-Files 2 [2], we knew there was “something out there,” but aliens seemed unlikely in this case since their diet of dried Neopolitan ice-cream...
Sometimes the chords sound a little off; needless to say, they are supposed to sound that way, and every time you think you hear a conventional pattern of voice-leading in his accompaniment, he abandons it and plays a perfectly timed major seventh at the top of the piano and throws you off balance. This is not to say that Monk’s playing is haphazard or cacophonous. Rather, it has its own unique beauty that cannot be reduced to a series of dehumanized chord progressions and riffs...
...Needless to say, this implies a serious rethinking of the global economies of power and capital that create African poverty. If Americans and Europeans started buying only what they really need our whole post-industrial economy would collapse. Moreover, aid from the “developed world” does not deal with the causes of African poverty and often creates new problems. Aid is needed for acute crises such as famines, AIDS, and the basic needs of the resulting orphans, but aid cannot deal with the economic and political roots of these crises...
...ebbing away, how the dream that was college life was soon to end, and how soon I would be lucky if the Spare Change guy would even give me the time of day as I panhandled on the streets of Cambridge or pushed my shopping cart/house around Allston. Needless to say, none of this has happened, but I guess we’ll never know how close I came...