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...better to chart the future of the world than in such a place of formal connection? Even the grove's center is a sudden space in the midst of growth: a clearing, a place where the air is less heavy, where one can look directly up and see the sky...
...Bhuj still remained cut off, with no electricity or telephones. Ahmedabad residents were camped in parks and on the sidewalks outside their damaged homes. In Pachchao, a village in the salt desert not far from the epicenter, Dawod Ismail Siddhi cried, "There is nothing left between the sky and the earth any more. Everything has been demolished." His sister Banu knelt beside a rope cot bearing the corpses of her two children. Republic Day is an occasion for India to show off its prodigious military might. This year nature overshadowed it with an awesome display of its own destructive power...
...sky is falling, right...
...even, really, to sweep out the foyer at the Air & Space Museum. All of which we applied for. And neither of us expects that this letter will change anyone's mind in the new administration, or give us a better chance at that great government pension in the sky. We just want to set the record straight, and to perhaps warn other soft-hearted folks who, foundering in the tempest-toss'd seas of contemporary employment, have set their compass needles square on the sweet, sheltering shores that are the Washington job market...
Secretary of State Colin Powell came into his job with sky-high public approval ratings and dazzling people skills, and both were on display during his department debut this week. His arrival for at 8:30 a.m. Monday for his first day on the job prompted a rousing celebration, as hundreds of cheering staffers crammed into the lobby area to welcome the new boss. Thursday, he got a standing ovation at a "town meeting" for employees beamed to embassies around the world. African-American employees seemed especially struck. One told Powell simply, "I would just like to thank...