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...would also help compensate for a big Murdoch deal that seems to be falling apart: his joint venture with EchoStar to create a new satellite TV service called Sky. The service, announced with much fanfare in February, would beam 500 channels of digital programming to small home dishes. Because Murdoch's service would have the ability to deliver local over-the-air stations (which other satellite services cannot do), Sky could take significant numbers of customers away from cable. The prospect so alarmed rival media companies that they flooded Washington with lobbyists to try to stop Murdoch on regulatory grounds...
...mother and I drove home in silence. I walked outside beneath a starry Midwestern sky. A gentle breeze swirled through the cornfields stretching across the horizon. I sat down, overwhelmed by the beauty. Then I cried and cried and cried and never thought I would stop...
...plastic-explosive charges blasted more openings from the tunnels into the interior of the residence. Still others blew open on each side of the building's exterior, and one ripped up the back garden. "The whole house shook like cardboard," an army lieutenant says, and smoke billowed into the sky as automatic weapons clattered...
Just one more reason not to live in Los Angeles. It seems there's an active volcano under Wilshire Boulevard, and is it steamed! It blows spitballs of lava up through manhole covers. It sends fire chunks into the sky, as if in a malefic Disney World spectacle, and has them land on prime Beverly Hills real estate. It not only exhales scalding air, it also sucks it back in. This monster, writhing undead in its coffin, has a personality. It even growls, basso profundo; imagine Barry White slowly murmuring "Booo...
Jenkins offers a different justification in his own life-transforming encounter with poetry: "I realized that a lot of the things that I remembered as I was walking along the street or staring up at the sky were lines of poetry; the words would float up into my mind unbidden...[Poetry] provided a way of understanding the world...