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Aesop stresses the importance of the creative method in his own work, as an assembly of “little phrases or sentences,” lyrical fragments typed into cell phones or scrawled onto scrap paper, “metaphors without links...
Aesop stresses the importance of the creative method in his own work, as an assembly of “little phrases or sentences,” lyrical fragments typed into cell phones or scrawled onto scrap paper, “metaphors without links...
...only two hours last Thursday, kept his government's focus almost exclusively on arms control. Repeating Soviet proposals for sweeping reductions in nuclear weapons that the U.S. regards as promising but deceptive, Shevardnadze issued what amounted to a dare to the U.S.: "Are you ready, as we are, to scrap hundreds of missiles and aircraft, thousands of nuclear charges? Say yes and we shall certainly be able to agree on verification." Shevardnadze also renewed the Soviet demand for abandonment of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative, popularly called Star Wars. Said he: "The Soviet Union is proposing a world without weapons...
...steel pots" in use since 1941, the helmets are made of Kevlar, a man-made fiber that is lighter, yet stronger than many metals. But after buying three-quarters of a million at $85.20 apiece, the Department of Defense discovered that three manufacturers had delivered defective versions made with scrap material. Army officials say that even though the second-rate helmets offer more protection than the old steel models, "We ordered a vicua coat and got something that wasn...
...enlightened dictatorship. Not for the black population, but for the whites. I think we're going to have to force through certain things against the whites for the sake of the country." If he were the President, says Momberg, "I'd bring Chief Buthelezi into my Cabinet. I'd scrap the bloody three-way Parliament and bring the whites, the Indians and the coloreds into one body, and then I'd look for a federal solution for the next phase, bringing in the blacks...