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...once called them, no longer even exist. New York City's cleaner, safer streets make it positively attractive. It is not a feral haven of drug addicts and serial killers but a place to take the family. In that respect, mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg are reaping what they have sown. If they could clean out muggers and squeegee men, maybe they could clean up Washington...
...moving a major bill is an elusive mix of endurance, persuasion, negotiation, intimidation--and timing. The field is sown with favors large and small over many years and watered with occasional menace. (Ask Dingell how he feels about being called "the meanest s.o.b. in Congress," and he quietly answers, "It's very useful.") With luck, the seeds bear fruit when the votes are finally counted. The process is so slow and cumulative that few people ever become masters. "I've been doing it for years, and I learned from the best," Dingell said, "Rayburn, John McCormack [Rayburn's successor...
...urban setting,” Assistant Director Kathleen Frith says in the video. Frith and the center’s director, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize winner Eric Chivian, who have been working on the proposal, declined to comment yesterday. But though the seeds for the farm have been sown, EAC Chair Spring Greeney ’09, who e-mailed the initial link to the poll, acknowledged that it was still unclear whether undergraduates would be able to reap the benefits. “The farm project, as far as I understand it, is still really, really speculative...
...property near Forbes in central western New South Wales, Stewart left school to study social work in Sydney, where he discovered ballet at the relatively late age of 19. His professional trajectory began with two years at the Australian Ballet School, but the seeds had been sown back on the family farm. "Even before I started dancing," he recalls, "I used to listen to music and imagine bodies flying through space." For how much longer at ADT, one can only surmise. Stewart was recently mentioned as a possible successor to Graeme Murphy at the Sydney Dance Company, but with...
...mile elevated railway track that served for decades as a way to bring freight into lower Manhattan. By 1980 the trains had stopped running and the tracks were sliding into decades of spectacular decay that was also a kind of blossoming. Nature re-established itself. Saplings and wind-sown grasses sprouted in rail beds where the homeless built campfires at night. Whole stretches made you think of the Appian Way after the fall of the Roman Empire, the almost phosphorescent decrepitude of a vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern city was churning away...