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...none other than utilitarian reasons. When possible, cities should build bike paths like those along the Charles River. But in cramped cities where the roads cannot be widened to accommodate the bicyclists, the drivers and unfortunately the police must make a stronger commitment to keep the roads sane...
Unfortunately, these may be the outcomes of all these blundering attempts to subordinate the Olympics to matters of politics and principle. What sane nation would agree in advance to commit the enormous financial and administrative resources necessary to stage the games when the possibility of a boycott looms so large...
...party in one of those porticoed palaces that seize an otherwise perfectly sane person with the desire to summon up some hounds and go terrorize a fox, the anniversary of her birth had been toasted with champagne. They put the author in a prominent chair, and people came and knelt to share a word. Elsewhere in the rooms, literary conversations were going on. The theme of the annual William Faulkner conference this year upstate at Oxford, one organizer volunteered, is the humor in Faulkner's works. "A lot of people just don't see it," he added...
...paper man. There was no strength in him. I was safe, had been deceived. He wasn't strong or hot or warm. He wasn't a murderer. He was a suicide if anything but I doubted even that. Suicide is a sickness in health and Rick and wholly sane....I held him with the power of the human eve over a beast...
Suspending belief is the best way a Beirut resident can stay sane. Peace has broken out so many times, only to be shattered again, that few dared hope that the latest cease-fire would be anything more than a brief respite. "If you had told us ten years ago that we could expect a decade of war, we would have thrown up our hands," says Jana Tamer, publisher of a Middle East newsletter. "Tell us now that it will go on for another ten years, and I guess we would just shrug. We are numb...