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What, then, is the charm of the dirt road? I don't know. But it feels better somehow than a paved road. Actually, I do know: What's wrong with a paved road is that it brings in more traffic, more people, more houses, and maybe, in the fullness of time, a development, a commercial strip, a shopping mall...
...thought I was a decent father," he says in the house where the smell of death still lingers. "I've cried so hard my face hurts." And yet something within him still grasps at a solution. "Somehow we've got to bring happiness back onto the planet so that people will want to live..." He reaches for a more precise word. "So that children will want to live...
Going on the offensive against Gore's character is a risk for George W. Bush, since he's more or less built a campaign on not doing so: that is, on elevating the "tone" of public discourse. (Of course, the notion that it's somehow not cricket to suggest that your opponent should not be elected is one of the more ridiculous newer rules of politics, but Bush has been one of its chief advocates.) As a safeguard, "Really" (financed by the Republican National Committee but OK'd by the Bush camp) follows the trendy and insulting strategy of trying...
...that?s now for the newcomer to figure out: Clinton, for his part, managed to shed the debate?s ugliness with his usual aplomb - sounding utterly reasonable and extremely diplomatic as he passed the buck. And it?s fitting, somehow, that the decision made was not to make a decision. This is the beginning of the end of Clintonian international relations, after all, and as if on cue, history has started playing the President out the door...
...fueled by oil wealth that somehow misses the great bulk of the nation's 120 million people, a bumper crop of construction cranes pierces the Abuja skyline. The capital remains very much a work in progress. Many governmental functions and satellite offices - like the U.S. embassy, for example - remain a 10-hour car ride away in Lagos. The stark poured concrete design of most of Abuja's buildings contrasts sharply with the lush green palm fronds, reddish earth and mud, and huge distinctive outcroppings of coarse black volcanic rock that constitute the capital's older and more natural skyline...