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...thankful that our would-be neighbors raised their own serious concerns about the proposed plans for 400 units at the small Brighton Mills site, which residents have never approved and yet the board wants to accept. The board and its silent partner apparently do not believe we deserve this right, which is all we are asking...
...been prescient on a great many issues. He was one of the few Democrats to vote, correctly, in favor of the first Gulf War. He was one of the few Democrats to argue, correctly, on Sept. 23, 2002, that Bush's pre-emptive invasion of Iraq would be a serious mistake. Now Gore seems liberated, less awkward than he has ever before appeared in public and eager to propose more inconvenient truths?like the need for a tax on fossil fuels. I don't know if he's running for President. Probably not. But he should...
...terror bombings) throbs with anxiety, foreboding and half-suppressed violence. Heaney's language is a symphony of sounds, surprises and look-'em-up words, like his barber's "cold smooth creeping steel and snicking scissors." You'll want to sing his lines out loud - until you realize how deadly serious the post-9/11 Heaney can be. "Anything can happen," he warns, "the tallest towers/ Be overturned, those in high places daunted,/ Those overlooked regarded." The world has changed, he is saying, and those cold, smooth, snicking scissors are creeping toward us. - D.M. 5. Tahir Shah, The Caliph's House...
...critics remain mired in an outdated cold-war mindset, and exhorts Russians to work harder to create a modern, prosperous society. One big campaign he launched this year aims to encourage Russians to have more children, in order to reverse a sharp drop in the population that could have serious long-term consequences. It's all part of his message that Russia needs to become strong again - a message with which the West must still learn to live...
...Should You Buy a Diamond?" [Nov. 27]: This is a serious question, given the unsavory facts about how these stones are procured. A diamond is nothing but crystallized carbon that shines up prettily. The gullibility of people could just as easily lead us to admire a cow patty, glazed, shined and set in aluminum. It is all a matter of the value placed on something by those who profit from its sale and by those who believe its possession makes them enviable. These folks ignore what it takes to get a diamond: the slave labor, the exploitation of entire nations...