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...Kennedys--a literary form of which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is a founding master. And at times, Thomas slips into dreamy, unthinking partisanship: "Americans were afraid in 1968, and they eventually voted their fears and elected Richard Nixon." But perhaps Americans simply decided that the Democrats, with their ruinous, unwinnable war in Vietnam and their grandiose, badly managed Great Society, deserved a rest...
...According to Tuesday?s Wall Street Journal, it?s not just annoying when business travelers can?t make it to their destinations on time - it can be financially ruinous. Even with new video-conferencing technologies, many companies prefer to send their employees to meet clients face-to-face. That humanizing touch can be a deal-maker, but there is a risk involved: It requires employees to grit their teeth through countless airport disasters, often arriving four or five hours late at their destination hotels, and slogging through the following, critical workday on just a few hours? sleep...
After reading these tales of the ruinous river diversions of Soviet planners and American water experts, you might conclude that ecological ignorance unites all nations. Misanthropes will hoot as governments simultaneously beggar their neighbors and poison their own wells. With a brutal accounting looming for our profligate misuse of earth's amniotic fluid, the author offers ways that countries can secure more supplies. The most likely scenario is an old standby: steal water from others...
...creditors caught up with him, there were so many warehouses full of art to sell that they had to be parceled out slowly so as not to wreck the international market. Finally, great lots of the stuff were sold over the counter at department stores to cover the ruinous debt he had amassed...
...McGinn's lawyers are challenging the prosecutorial evidence linking their client to Flanary's rape, claiming the old-style DNA tests performed on evidence collected from her body were inconclusive. The defense attorneys are demanding a test using improved methods - which they feel would exonerate McGinn of the ruinous second conviction...