Word: plaines
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...resulting piece - which Life published in its May 13, 1957, issue (one that is not online, unfortunately) - is hilarious today. Wasson describes his hallucinations at great length, in reverent terms: "The visions were not blurred or uncertain. They were sharply focused. I felt that I was now seeing plain, whereas ordinary vision gives us an imperfect view; I was seeing the archetypes, the Platonic ideas, that underlie the imperfect images of everyday life." This is druggie talk - febrile and largely meaningless. That it was printed in Life magazine - the most influential publication of the day - without irony shows how na?ve...
...plain-spoken octogenarian, who managed a motel until her late '70s, is relieved that rumors of suicide by Seung-Hui's parents proved false. All the same, she doesn't think it would be advisable for the family, who have maintained their Korean citizenship, to return to their native land in the wake of this horrible tragedy. "It would it would be too difficult for them if they returned here as this is a small country and Koreans are very gossipy," she says matter-of-factly. "We wouldn't let them return and would even try and block them...
These tough critics are the "trauma surgeons of public relations," as Dezenhall puts it--the people whom companies call in when lawsuits, recalls, boycotts, federal investigations or just plain bad luck hits. "These unwanted events are our daily challenges," he writes in Damage Control: Why Everything You Know About Crisis Management Is Wrong. The field traces its recent roots to 1982, when seven people died from taking cyanide-laced Tylenol pills, and the manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson, quickly recalled 30 million bottles of Tylenol and introduced tamper-proof packaging. That storied recovery showed corporate America the power of getting it right...
...Seung-Hui was the mystery hiding in plain sight, a man who wore a hat and sunglasses inside, a student with no Facebook page. Talking to him, said English department head Lucinda Roy, "was like talking to a hole. He wasn't there most of the time." Even students who had lived with him knew virtually nothing about him; the simplest conversations--Where are you from? What's your major?--got a monosyllabic response. A "hello" was a big deal. They never heard him talk about weapons or killing or violence--because he never talked at all. "We just thought...
...signing statements”—official assertions by the president of his power to ignore certain provisions in laws he deemed unconstitutional. The statements are not confidential but Savage was the first to reveal their systematic use. “It was hiding in plain sight,” Savage said, “but no one was talking about it.” In the first article, published on Jan. 4, 2006, Savage wrote, “When President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass...