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...believes the way he is campaigning is the only way Jerry Brown can resurrect himself politically," Emerson said...
Were this a book about politics or culture, such glorification of the past might truly be pernicious, as was the case with Reaganism. Since, unlike politics, baseball will never resurrect the substance of by-gone eras, the effect is merely sad. Wilber has interviewed a few legitimate baseball stars, men whose achievements transcend the decade in which they played. But even subjects such as Ted Williams seem unfocused; they deliver vague platitudes to the glory of their times rather than providing the crisp details of specific experiences that enliven good baseball books. David Halberstam understood this, and this...
...resurrect the American infrastructure, the government might help finance federal, state and local partnerships to build mass transit, opting for light rail more often than underground subway lines. These transit systems would easily pay back their start-up costs through reduced consumption of fossil fuels, diminished pollution and traffic congestion. The construction could be financed, at least in part, by new taxes on parking and gasoline. Similarly, high-speed railcars could be a new, more efficient means of transportation and could be paid for by imposing new taxes on diesel and jet fuel. Those levies would not be popular...
...Kennebec River by acquiring and breaching a 154-year-old dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has drawn up plans to regenerate wetlands killed off by flood- control projects. And in partnership with the Cook County Forest Preserve District, the Illinois Nature Conservancy has begun to resurrect thousands of hectares of prairie and woodlands. "We can be part of nature without wrecking it," asserts Steve Packard, the Illinois Conservancy's chief ecologist. "All we need is discipline, humility and knowledge...
Gates arrives at the University this fall to resurrect the department and put it on its feet, after years of stagnation and failed efforts to recruit new faculty...