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...effects create this feeling of exile. But for many people Prospero's renunciation of his magic represents Shakespeare giving up writing in this his final play. Paul Freeman evokes this idea in a powerful performance of Prospero's monologues: After recalling with both enthusiasm and nostalgia what his "so potent art" had once done, he says regretfully. "But this rough magic I here abjure...
...billion. By this measure Americans are the most charitable people on earth. Even so, deep gloom suffuses the country's charitable groups. Those who help the poor and desperate believe if the budget-balancing plan goes into effect as passed by Congress, charities and their clients face a potent double whammy: a drop in direct government support for charitable organizations just as demand for their help surges because of simultaneous cuts in federal entitlement programs. Bob Smucker, chief lobbyist for the public-interest umbrella group Independent Sector, says grimly, "It is the worst of times. And it is the worst...
Thurow said he also had South American contacts who supply him with the most potent picker-uppers...
Then, in not so hushed tones, Olivia inquired as to the state of her lover's new bed. I had obviously overestimated B.C.'s Catholicism and underestimated the pervasiveness of potent American sexuality. Such flagrant sexual intimacy has come to disturb every aspect of life here, in the process turning the college bar into a giant back seat; moving X rated movies to the R section, likening Madonna to Marilyn. Our culture has come to reflect our sex life as an exhibitionist porn-show...
...difficulty is that, except in extreme circumstances, the most potent mechanism to promote international order--armed force--is irrelevant to addressing the international issues Americans most worry about. Instead the U.S. and its allies must look after problem countries' internal health: to dry up the poverty that spawns drug growers, boat people and terrorists; to encourage clean and responsive governments capable of addressing grievances. What kind of U.S. foreign policy can foster such conditions? The tools Washington has inherited from the cold war, designed to defend territory and prop up clients, are certainly unsuited to the task...