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...Ancient Greeks told of a mania that masquerades as clarity, one that demands tearing a human being limb from limb and scattering his or her remains to the winds to quench some dire compulsion for cosmic order. That kind of bacchanalia, bloody and bestial, did not perish with the age of Sophocles. The remains of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper County, East Texas, are testament to its endurance...
...Washington these were dry statistics, but in the Midwest, disastrous facts. In North Dakota, which had barely an inch of rain in four months, there was no grass for cattle. Farmers tramped their dusty fields watching their dwarfed grain shrivel and perish. A baking sun raised temperatures to 90[degrees], to 100[degrees]. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average: 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions...
...have a better understanding of this rationale. My God, for a minute there it looked like a...like a real town meeting! With luck, they'll be having no more of that. They now know, if they didn't before, that those who live by the gimmick may perish...
Because talk is cheap? Perish the thought. Because in confronting our deepest racial feelings--even if emotions are "rubbed raw," he averred--we will emerge better and stronger...
...means that every year about 35,000 Americans are dying prematurely, or in unnecessary pain, or both. The investigations bear out something many Americans have suspected all along: in a recent survey published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 30% of those polled said they would rather perish than live in a nursing home. Packard, who has spent nearly two years tracking the data, says, "We believe thousands would have lived significantly longer had they been taken care...