Word: riche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...link between science and literature is not neat and tidy; trying to impose one risks being facile and fallacious. In writing about science, Dawkins has built his popularity around prose that is rich and engaging to scientists and poets alike. But in trying too hard to link science and poetry, Dawkins threatens to alienate both audiences...
...stories such as Cortes Island, The Children Stay and Rich As Stink, women are stretched beyond the limits of convention by passion and circumstance. They are not complainers. Reticence is the pervading style of Munro's rural Ontario, where "drawbacks and adversity were not to be noticed, not to be distinguished from their opposites." Munro breaks the silence, but without devaluing the style. Not many writers can pull this off. It takes a balance of compassion and detachment worthy of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom...
Your report on corporate welfare, the tax breaks and subsidies that companies get [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 9], represents the best kind of journalism. Unfortunately, government giveaways to corporations have a long, rich history in the U.S. Mining companies can still take advantage of laws enacted in the 1800s that allow special privileges. The only difference between this and the corporate welfare you reported on is that today the federal and local governments are selling off our future at bargain rates. DAVID BROOKS Fox River Grove...
...said that while corporate welfare is a financial boon to some companies, it is unfair to companies that do not receive equal public tax dollars. But this misses the target. The greatest flaw is that for every dollar given by local and federal governments to coddle rich corporations, there is one less dollar to support programs for workers or alleviate the plight of America's poor. The political system is part of the problem, but America's economic system, based on competition for profit and primarily serving the needs of the wealthy, dictates the behavior of both the politicians...
Back by popular demand (or, at least, lack of popular complaint) are the turkey hands kindergartners are drawing this week, as rendered by the rich, famous and the Secretary of Agriculture. Question: Is Jerry Springer being his nonconformist provocative self, or did he just not get the concept...