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...needed time to reflect on what to do next," he says, reminiscing about halcyon days spent living in the shadow of the era's emerging hippie culture...
Maryland Congresswoman Constance Morella claims she is "afraid to go to sleep at night for fear of waking up and finding another agency has been moved to West Virginia." D.C.'s elected shadow senator, Jesse Jackson, says the migration "smacks of racism." That is merely Jackson's way of saying he doesn't like it. It's true the affected federal employees suffer the trauma of either uprooting their families or losing their jobs. But the same trauma is faced by employees of the many businesses enticed into the Washington area, often with the energetic help of these same members...
...transcended Vietnam. In an "Army" magazine article summarizing the war, Vietnam appears as a constant shadow: "The conduct of this war was a far cry from Vietnam." George Bush made it as explicit as possible: Unlike Vietnam, he said, American troops in Iraq would not fight "with one arm tied behind their backs." As if that were the problem in Vietnam...
...WARREN REPORT, in just 37 trillion pithy pages, managed to demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that JFK was dead. JFK's application, 10 pages long, demonstrates equally conclusively that he would have been negged by Harvard in the '90s, Kennedy name and all. "No chance," Light said. "I wish they were all this easy...
Which news item from the shadow world of basketball stardom was more poignant: Magic Johnson's announcement that he had contracted the HIV virus, or Wilt Chamberlain's boast, just days earlier, that he has had sex with more than 20,000 women...