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...year old ‘rapper’ just breaking in.” His sentiments are echoed in “Guarantees,” where he states his deepest fear: someone might “kill me in my 30s in the name of progress.” Unfortunately, the brilliant line is forgotten as the song collapses into an unforgivably tacky conclusion, “The only guarantee in life is a life worth dying for,” a line that stands out awkwardly for its dowdiness in a brilliantly written album...
Most of us have a pretty good idea about how we want to die: at home, at peace, quickly, with family, without pain. And at a ripe old age. But progress begets paradox: we've gotten so good at the last goal, it swallowed the others, so we live longer but die slower. Two out of three people die in hospitals or nursing homes, often alone, the process prolonged by a conspiracy of hope, fear, bureaucracy, inertia. When researchers not long ago interviewed family members of the recently deceased, half of them said their loved...
...pretty sharp--that comes with the territory. But the opprobrium has taken on a distinctly unpleasant edge in recent weeks as a wave of nationalist anger has roiled China. "Simon, you will be hated by 1.3 billion Chinese," someone wrote in response to my blog post about the chaotic progress of the Olympic torch through London. "Hope someday someone will spit on your face. Your name will be recorded in Chinese history book forever as one of cold blooded, Hitler-type, murder's assistant...
Kagan said in an e-mailed statement that the fund is tackling difficult problems, and that “I hope I can contribute, in some small way, to making progress on them...
Ideal Date: Meeting at a bar already drunk so things progress quickly...