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...sheer expense of living in Nylonkong is but one of the challenges facing it - as the next three stories demonstrate. In the case of New York, high real estate prices may squeeze out of town the very people that make a city fun and livable. Globalization may have brought many benefits to those who live in London, New York and Hong Kong, but it has at the same time made the familiar strange, and turned the known world upside down. As they see London property prices bid to the skies by an influx of foreigners, native Cockneys...
...right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might...
...come. The day after the New Hampshire primary of 1992, I remember having lunch alone in a diner in Manchester, and then, walking along the snowy banks of the Merrimack River, punching the air and yelling, "Yes, yes, yes!" to the lowering sky, for no reason other than the sheer giddy joy at having been part...
...Climate change and our energy policy should be the first concern of the next president. Richardson, who served as Secretary of Energy during the Clinton administration, has offered the boldest plan for addressing climate change. He understands the sheer magnitude of the challenge we face, and has proposed nothing short of a revolution in energy policy. He even wrote a book, “Leadership by Example,” about how to solve the climate crisis...
...night that was historic in ways large and small. The sheer size of the Democratic turnout - 236,000 people, nearly twice as many as 2004 - distorted the caucus process...