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...connecting each of us to our other selves. We need to understand popular expressions always, in order to judge where we’ll personally stand on the re-writes every generation makes. As Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset explained, all that really differentiates us from apes is the pile of human errors we call “History.” And yet a sort of historic principle of uncertainty rules what each of us defines as “mistake.” So was ’68 the best or worst from our parent?...
...houses throughout south Lebanon, pancaked a six-story apartment block down a narrow street in the heart of Tyre. A huge pall of yellow smoke and dust rose above the town, marking the spot where the bombs have fallen. All that was left of the building was a sprawling pile of rubble mixed with the pathetic detritus of people?s destroyed homes - broken tables, a lamp, half a sofa, torn books, clothing...
...selling them back to the Mint for more pennies." Kolbe, who advocates rounding to the nearest nickel, argues that parking meters, Laundromats, transit systems and vending machines don't accept pennies. Merchants hate them and won't let you pay for things with a stack of them. They pile up or get thrown away to such an extent that the Mint made 8 billion new ones last year--far more than any other coin--at a cost of roughly $100 million--which is like a penny to the government...
...address until his roommate reminded him about the competition 40 minutes before the deadline. He cranked out 14 pages, submitted them—and was promptly misfiled. “I have a faux-serious paragraph at the beginning of my speech, so they put me in the serious pile,” Burkle says, “and my name is Jess, so they put me in the women’s pile.” Once the clerical error was fixed, the Senior Class Committee was won over by Burkle’s speech, which he says...
...ceremonies and had to complete by the time the Olympic flame is extinguished.Her late partner’s mother taught her to knit, Scott says.“There’s a great deal of pleasure when working with yarn; it ends up being something more than a pile of paper. There’s a whole world inside a book, but its pages are not terribly satisfying to fondle.” —Staff writer Doris A. Hernandez at dahernan@fas.harvard.edu...