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Updike's latest novel, Toward the End of Time, was published in 1997. According to Sweeny, a new book, a "quasi-novel" titled Bech at Bay, will be released in October...
...long gone before any of them had even applied to Harvard. The council, I can recall from my days of covering it three years ago, was far more of a forum for blatant partisan politics before PUCC than after; the council chambers were a snake pit of backstabbing quasi-politicos walking around in suits and trying to look important while they planned one miserably failing social event after another...
When prominent scientists are prepared to acquiesce in--or indeed encourage--the deliberate creation of deformed and dying quasi-human life, you know we are facing a bioethical abyss. Human beings are ends, not means. There is no grosser corruption of biotechnology than creating a human mutant and disemboweling it at our pleasure for spare parts...
Carter doesn't have to search for deeper meanings; that is a job for paid professionals, of whom, in America, there are many. Their theories range from the sociological to the psychological to the quasi political. "There is a greater diversity of road users now than at any other time in history," says Hawaii's James. "Therefore streets are not reserved for the optimum, skilled driver but accommodate a variety of driver groups with varying skill, acuity and emotional control"--jerks, in nontechnical lingo. And unlike in previous generations, the willingness to be a jerk on the road...
...Americans were moved by the sections on race contained in Clinton's second Inaugural Address and this year's State of the Union speech. And, Penn also found, they were "quite open to taking another look at race in America." So he suggested creating a second Kerner Commission, the quasi-independent body appointed by President Johnson to investigate the ghetto riots of the late 1960s. It produced the oft-quoted line about America's being "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." But it also called for creating 2 million jobs and building 6 million housing units...