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West Coast Wildfires The sheer arrogance of the article about California's fires was astounding. So we should not live in fire-prone areas? Perhaps people in New England shouldn't live in snow-prone areas, people in the Midwest shouldn't live in tornado-prone areas, and people in the Southeast shouldn't live in hurricane-prone areas. Storms in other parts of the U.S. cause far more deaths, injuries and economic losses each year than do the relatively infrequent major fires in California. Perhaps you can suggest a spot on the planet where we can all live free...
...rooms. The show is now on display at the MFA through May 4, 2008. In the exhibition’s introductory text, Clifford S. Ackley, the MFA’s curator of prints and drawings, explains that the show’s “focus is on the sheer pleasure of looking and comparing how different artists in different times and places have inventively [rendered] the same subjects: the human figure, landscapes, birds and animals, fish and flowers.” There are “drawings” incised in metal, stone and clay; “drawings?...
Conservatives might hate Hillary desperately--quite literally. They want to believe that her sheer unlikability will make up for all the Republican Party's weaknesses going into 2008, that the public is as vested in hating her as they are. They may despise Hillary Clinton, but it's on her that they now pin their hopes...
...this eventually gave rise to the current array of student-faculty committees, a system so tortuous that one can’t help but be awed into submission by its sheer complexity...
...decided that, for the most part, things needed to be handled by the Freshman Dean’s Office and individual House masters on a case-by-case basis. That this decision was almost verbatim the status quo before anyone did any advocacy hardly diminishes from the sheer majesty of the process that produced...