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...Richard, if so many of us write so poorly, don't you deserve some blame?" His answer is that Expos does a fine job, churning out prize-winning essayists year after year. The trouble, it turns out, begins upon completion of Expos, after which inattention to writing becomes the norm...
...last congressional elections, only 38 percent of the eligible citizens went to the polls. This figure was the lowest in 45 years and in several states the turnout was the lowest since 1798. In effect, Americans are returning to the way of doing political business that was the norm before the civil rights movement...
...these statutes and so many like them now untenable? What is to account for this change (for the better) in the political landscape? The answer is clear: the political vision and constitutional leadership of the Court. Segregated schools, remarkably the norm in the South a mere 30 years ago, are unthinkable today because of the foresight of the nine members of the Warren Court who handed down Brown v. Board of Education and the courage of the southern federal judges who enforced...
...players, who earn $230,000 on the average, are after a free-agency mechanism more meaningful than the strict compensation system in place since 1977. Over an entire decade of free enterprise, it has brought about the emancipation of a solitary St. Louis defensive back named Norm Thompson. No matter the player, pro football's unique partner-owners have been disinclined to fork over high draft choices for the rights to their brethren's superstar. It is probably fair to say that the owners have competed more strenuously against alien forces like the defunct United States Football League than against...
...Outback, which is currently In, Chatwin finds that rooms are few and far between. Lonesomeness and cultural dislocation are the norm, and traditional songlines are sometimes surprisingly upbeat. What would the ancestors think of the aboriginal rock band whose record Grandfather's Country reached No. 3 on the antipodean charts? Or of the highly educated tribal leader who twice a year set aside his hunting spear, put on a double-breasted suit and boarded a train for Adelaide, where he read back issues of Scientific American...