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...woman in these songs drags her notorious past around as if it were a fur coat worn too long in the rain. She is someone who has done everything and now wants to feel anything. Each disappointment is a station of the cross leading to a Calvary with no payoff: "Ashes to ashes, rust to dust, this is what becomes of us" (Primitive). At the end she is withered, regretful, a little wiser, like a Samuel Beckett creature on her deathbed. She knows this last journey will be a vacation: "Dying is easy. It's living that scares...
...subjects are less obscure now. In Earth in the Balance Gore writes, "The global environmental crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future...
...Central Asia -- 10 years ago the fourth largest inland sea in the world, now dead, its fishing fleets stranded surreally in dry desert. The water that once fed the Aral was diverted in an ill-considered irrigation project to grow cotton. Gore traveled to the vanishing Amazon rain forest and to the globe's other environmental Stations of the Cross. He knows too much, however, to indulge in mere sentimentalism about Earth-Motherhood, or to join a doctrinaire rush to simplification...
Harvard, on the other hand, has struggled in both rain and shine recently, facing strong pitching against Boston University, Providence and yesterday, Brown...
Senior Rob Kincaid said that weather conditions plagued the team, particularly in the second round. "It was 35 degrees and there was a driving rain all day." Kincaid said. "The course was completely water-logged...