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Ultimately Ionesco must resign, defeated by the complexity of the monster he tries to describe. Innumerable counterpoints between what is rationality and what is naivete, subversion and loyalty, principle and experimentation, illusion and distortion are too much to sort out. Ionesco deliberately muddles his discussions with multiple speakers all declaiming at once, and the simple absurdity of people metamorphosing into thick-skinned pachyderms all testify to his won uncertainty. The effect is a mood of irrationality and mayhem as close to the experience of a real Nazi town as can be imagined. Today his vision nags like a trauma sustained...
That's right--Walsh has refused to resign from his post on the council after being found guilty of enough crimes to put him in prison for two lifetimes. Apparently, he believes that he can overturn all 41 convictions and the results of a four-year federal investigation. Perhaps another jury or judge will have more sympathy for the protracted soliloquies Walsh delivered about his immigrant parents, his dedicated work habits and the fulfillment of his own American dream. The evidence in the trial, however, conveys only that Walsh was dedicated to the systematic execution of criminal acts...
Walsh certainly has a right to remain on the council while his expected appeals go through. Massachusetts law will require him to resign if he faces any jail time, but his case is not over. Nevertheless, we can fairly say that Walsh's days of serving Cambridge are over...
Walsh has to comprehend that he can do more for Cambridge by resigning than by remaining on the council as a lame duck. He's already been in office for nine years, and his fellow council members and the citizens of Cambridge will never again see him in the same light. Thus, for his own good and for ours, we must ask unconditionally that Walsh resign as soon as he can make his way to Cambridge City Hall...
President Clinton signed into law a measure offering buyouts of as much as $25,000 to federal employees who resign or retire early. The measure, an attempt to streamline the federal bureaucracy in a humane way, calls for elimination of nearly 273,000 workers...