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...waited in lines at the department of motor vehicles; why are some of us so eager to ignore experience and ascribe to government a kind of Herculean can-do-ness? Here's one theory: if you're squeaking by on the minimum wage, it's probably more satisfying to focus your resentments on a coven of fbi Trilateralists than it is to curse abstractions like economic restructuring or low Filipino wages (no one's much interested in divining corporate conspiracies...
...optimism that is a couterpart to the first side's confusion and depression. Interspersed between naive lines like, "With the power of soul, anything is possible," Hendrix' sincere guitar seems to be screaming, "Believe! Believe!" One line from "Power to Love" seems to summarize the sense of blissful stoned-ness coupled with agonized consciousness that characterized Hendrix' artistic quest. After some psychedelic nonsense about a jellyfish, Hendrix suddenly shines with one of his frequent moments of poetic lucidity...
...their part, the CIA and other U.S. agencies are slowly discovering that the Internet can be a valuable source of intelligence. "Open-ness has come," says Robert Steele, a former intelligence officer who heads Open Source Solutions Inc. in Oakton, Virginia. He estimates that "40% of the total intelligence product that goes to the President comes from public sources," such as cnn, unclassified foreign- government documents and business reports. The Russian government, which once classified crop yields and factory output as state secrets, now routinely publishes those figures on the Internet to entice Western investors. Resistance groups in countries like...
...Ness compared her group's efforts toparticipate in the St. Patrick's parade to thestruggles fought by civil rights leaders whosought to march in Selma, Ala., in the 1960s...
GLIB has appealed the lower court's rulingwhich permitted SBAWVC to hold this year's protestmarch and exclude gays from the parade. The U.S.Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on April25, Van Ness said...