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...Hinohara sees old age as a time when it's finally possible to cultivate an individuality that has too often been sacrificed for the sake of work. His own popularity shows just how resonant that message is among Japanese?his second advice book also hit the best-seller list, and he receives scores of fan letters every day from readers around the country. Still going strong, Hinohara says he has more books in the works, and he continues to lecture on aging around the world. But he's beginning to consider making a few concessions to approaching geezerhood. "When...
...time that I wanted to talk about--people I loved and who I met, and people who touched me and made me the man I think I've become. So losing sections became sometimes difficult choices to make, because they were all important to me. But for the sake of a theater experience, you can't keep them sitting there for nine hours. It's not Nicholas Nicklejew...
...rebuilt—perhaps the historical districts, perhaps the docks—but these districts would be rebuilt without government intervention because there is private incentive to build them (in the examples above, tourist dollars and shipping dollars, respectively). The victims of Katrina deserve more than rebuilding for the sake of rebuilding; they would be better off if the federal government spent a fraction of the proposed reconstruction money on helping them resettle in other areas of the country that are not in danger of being submerged and, more importantly, have more economic opportunity than the now-moribund coast...
...self-righteous admitted socialists at the Kremlin on the Charles plan to continue their tireless crusade against the Solomon Amendment, which simply allows the government to withhold money to schools that bar military recruiters on campus. The Supreme Court will almost certainly uphold the constitutionality of the measurefor Gods sake the government can withhold federal dollars to just about anyone who does something it does not like. (For example, not fund football and womens basket-weaving equally at colleges, or try to establish a legal drinking age less than 21). Its all but assured that an organization that actively works...
Core, I would love and not loathe you if you had a compelling, guiding purpose. Command me, Core, to take those things I’d rather not take for the sake of my GPA or my attention span; make those who come in our wake study those things that, although it’s been hushed into an open secret, are still thought to be the underpinnings of our civilization...