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Such a grand beginning inspires confidence that we are in the hands of a master storyteller, and Schama's epic history richly fulfills that promise. This saga of revolt and revenge may at first seem somewhat familiar, for it has long been one of the great narrative legends of modern time, told and retold by Burke, Tocqueville, Carlyle and others. We already know -- don't we? -- about the dim-witted King Louis XVI, about Queen Marie Antoinette's supposedly saying "Let them eat cake," and the ragged mobs cheering as the bloodied guillotine rises and falls in its awful rhythm...
This week, The Liberal Boutique continues the saga of Larry's Misleading Ec 10 Statistics. Lindsey returned to Cambridge last Friday to lecture Ec 10 students on the glories of supply-side economics...
...industrial metals, Arcata has found. Since this is the case in most small and midsize American cities, combining them is technically easy. The swamp substitutes for some of the high-cost stages of sewage treatment. But take caution from weary Arcatans: skip the politics. The city's sewage saga sounds more like Gilbert and Sullivan than John Muir's diaries...
Boggs' life became entangled in a saga of sex and jealousy, and to find a perspective, he tuned into Geraldo Rivera. In a 60-minute Rivera show about sex addiction, Boggs realized his problem--he was a sex addict--and that he's not alone...
Bush hailed Cheney as a "widely respected man of principle," and dismissed the Tower saga by saying, "Look that's history...