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Before I came to Spain, I did not have any idea of where the United States stood in relation to the rest of the world. I always thought that things in America were the norm. Now I'm learning the meaning of the "difference." Riding the bus out of Madrid on my first day in Spain, I was surprised to see that between the city streets and sun-bleached countryside, there was nary a green-grassed suburb. I was even more astonished by the absence of safety fencing around the steep cliffs of the mountain ranges in northern Spain. Living...
Little did I know then that I would spend as much time holed up in the sports cube and on the road covering certain events than I could have doing anything else. Twelve-hour days were the norm at least once a week when I became head editor in 1995, but it wasn't as bad as it seems...
...hectic day is the norm for the NBC news anchor, as roughly 12 hours are invested in producing the 22-minute segments which millions of Americans watch each night...
...vocabulary. And although Russians can boast of ancient proto-democratic institutions like the village mir or the veche of Novgorod, where consensus decisions were reached at a kind of town meeting, centralized rule by an all-powerful executive--whether Czar or Communist Party General Secretary--has been the political norm throughout Russian history. The country simply has no democratic culture. It experimented briefly with limited parliamentary democracy before the 1917 revolution. The present era of quasi-democratization was inaugurated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 with elections for a new Congress of the People's Deputies. But these two periods offer...
...When we were kids growing up in Cambridge, we didn't lock our doors," Atkins says. "Violent crimes were rare. Now violent crimes are the norm...