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...free with a Harvard ID?" I asked the cashier. She shook her head. I was stunned. But I wasn't about to give Harvard any money--even if it was $5--to get into the garden. I watched my aunt and cousins file past me into the green...
...room, I could see President Clinton greeting each dignitary as they passed by. At first, I was three minutes away, then two, I had nowhere to move but forward, then one! There I was, face to face with the President of the United States! What could I do? I shook his hand, smiled and moved on. It was only 20 seconds. I never thought it would be such a story." He added that he never sought Clinton out nor forced a handshake. "Cubans are not beggars!" he declared. That brought laughter and applause...
...deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination and learned to trust its own talents...
...boxes in Chappaqua, it rings hollow. Does she really relish the prospect of rattling around in the huge empty house on her own? When she says, "It takes a village," doesn't she really mean "It takes mandatory universal health care, if only you people had listened"? When she shook so many hands in the Puerto Rican Day parade that veins were bulging in her wrist, all the while earnestly asking "How are you?," it sounded tinny, like a hotel operator inquiring "How can I direct your call?" Gail Sheehy reported that after that somber walk across the White House...
...while people around the world chuckled, shook their heads and made doomsday predictions about the future of science in Kansas, they were somewhat misinformed. There was plenty of room for outcry, for heated debate and discussion, but not for the hysterics that went on throughout the globe...