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...couple of us waded in the shallow part of the water. Two dark Cubans came over and began a conversation in very broken English. Both were university students interested in the sciences. One fellow was studying physics, geology, English, Spanish literature, Chemistry and Marxism-Leninism. The other was preparing to become a doctor. Lifting weights was their favorite sport. We asked whether or not they listened to radio stations from the United States. They smiled and the taller one, with difficulty, explained that the U.S. government was constantly broadcasting in Cuba, urging the people to resist "the evils of Communism...
During most of the nation's yearlong slide into recession, the strongest element in the economy was businessmen's willingness to spend on new equipment and expanded facilities. Companies were eager to buy because they expected the slowdown to be short and shallow, and as recently as last month the backlog of orders for capital goods still stood at a healthy total of $75.5 billion. Those orders and the pent-up corporate demand that they represent have served as a welcome moderating influence on the depth and duration of the recession...
...accredit individuals through whom God's promises are carried out: patriarchs, prophets, Jesus. Even very conservative Bible experts will now agree that the crossing of the Red Sea in Exodus can be too literally construed. Study shows that the Israelites apparently crossed the Sea of Reeds, a series of shallow lakes that once lay where the Suez Canal now runs. The high wind noted in Exodus could have made the lakes more easily fordable on foot?but not by the Egyptian chariots. None of that, however, really detracts from the immensity of the providential favor: in any event it helped...
...William Goldman's script was excellent in parts, but generally superficial. "It read like a Henny Youngman joke-book of one-liners," Bernstein complained to a friend. "Harry Rosenfeld [Post metropolitan editor] came out looking like Phil Silvers, and Ben Bradlee became Walter Pidgeon. It was just too shallow." So Bernstein and Esquire Contributing Editor Nora Ephron, his sometime roommate, have rewritten large chunks of the script...
...alone it is a glorified mud puddle, finely churned by the hundreds of motorcycles that scramble back and forth. In the middle a naked man is rolling about in the mire. The deeper he sinks, the greater the crowd's pleasure. A few thousand people now mill about this shallow, bowl-like dip of land, waiting for another victim, throwing empty cans of beer at each other. For the present they must content themselves with stoning the engine of an already charred hulk. Here there is no real audience. If you are not throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails...