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Edmunds repeatedly confronts his readers with the same images, until they seem to be pictograms rather than unique visions. By the end of the volume, Edmunds has only succeeded in teaching his symbols for regret and desolation. The reader fears this may be all that Edmunds has to teach...
When using a voice of chronological distance Edmunds' words are impotent. In a short poem, appropriately titled, "Weathering," the persona speaks with regret to his lover, "Remember last August, my desire/dying down like roses from toothed leaf to bud." Yet later in the poem, the speaker insists to his lover, "I want you." At this point the reader may be tempted to respond, "I don't think so." But perhaps a fistfull of red-dirt and a few dead roses would more adequately convey her regrets in the poet's own language...
...move that TIME correspondents say surprised everyone in its timing, CIA Director James Woolsey -- long criticized for his handling of the Aldrich Ames spy case -- resigned today. Woolsey said his "family figures prominently" in the decision to quit. President Clinton said he accepted the resignation "with regret." Woolsey had been under fire for weeks by lawmakers for not adequately punishing CIA officials for bungling the Ames case. Ames, a CIA counterintelligence officer, had been spying for Russia for eight years before being arrested last year. Woolsey reprimanded 11 senior officials but the Senate Intelligence Committee called the action "seriously inadequate...
...good health," but said Pyongyang would hold him at least until completion of a probe. Meanwhile in Washington -- where Administration officials have become apoplectic over North Korea's actions -- Defense Secretary William Perry said: "I believe the pilot made a mistake, and for many reasons we regret that mistake, but I do not believe the mistake warranted shooting down the helicopter." Perry said he had some hope Hall would be returned by Christmas, but declined to give details...
...photographs, complete with creases and torn edges. The text is the reminiscence of an apocryphal ex-newspaperman whose attempt to reconstruct a forgotten romance resurrects family secrets and American history. This is an original example of Proust's observation that "the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment...