Word: solon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more old-fashioned political theory this is the part where the miraculous lawgiver steps up to bat. It may be Moses or Solon or Lycurgus or God. He is uncommonly wise with a gift for lawmaking and an impeccable moral vision. His legislation is both moral and politic, popular and wise. Of course, the picture isn't completely rosy. Sometimes the people do not understand the message or the messenger. The people of Israel lose faith in Moses; the ten commandments are shattered at the foot of Sinai...
Paranoia could be the only sane strategy for getting through the '90s. When sci-fi solon William Gibson is asked if his fiction is an optimistic or pessimistic view of the future, he replies, "A realistic view of the present. I don't think of myself as a futurist. I think of myself as someone who inhabits a baffling and in many ways terrifying present in 1996. Science fiction is always about the year in which it is written. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a McCarthyite fantasy. Today, I think, the alien is inside, a virus of one kind...
...armband in memory of his favorite guitarist. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont was a fan and a friend; last summer Leahy invited the Dead to the Senate Dining Room, where the band met that noted groupie Strom Thurmond. "Boy, Ah heah you're a rock star," the orange-haired solon said, pulling Garcia out of his chair with a jerking handshake and a whap on the arm. According to an observer, Garcia was nonplussed. "Even back when I dropped acid," he remarked, "I never had an experience like that...
...oversees financial institutions, Markey has put forward a bill that would increase federal supervision of the largely unregulated derivatives dealers. "This wasn't a Maalox moment," he says of the recent run of financial setbacks. "It was a heart attack -- a warning." James Midanek, a financial expert whose firm Solon Asset Management helps victims of derivatives to minimize their losses, also sees more trouble ahead. "It's going to hit home a little more," he says. "We are going to hear more from local municipalities and colleges, and other less sophisticated investors who remain unaware of their exposure...
...nation's oldest Senator at 91, was checked into a hospital last night and remained there today after complaining of lightheadedness Monday. But doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital may release the South Carolina Republican tonight. No cause of the malaise was named, but the piss-and-vinegar solon had been traveling for several days, then skipped lunch...