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...Seeing the house that Hillary Clinton is considering - a fairytale-pointy, creamy Queen Anne pile on O Street that I passed ten thousand times when I was a child - I find that I am obscurely offended. I feel a stab of nostalgia. Georgetown is the only place where I am instinctively at home, even though I have been away for many years. I also feel irrationally possessive about Georgetown, having grown up there - when it was quaint and a lot cheaper, when working-class whites and blacks lived side by side with people from the State Department...
...trader and two money managers, and lately, points lost on the NASDAQ have been discussed more hotly than those lost on the court through blurred vision and spot rule revisions. To sharpen our focus and have a bit of fun, at our last outing we each made a stab at how long it will take the NASDAQ to get back to its March 10 record close of 5,049. The surprising results spurred me to widen the sample last week with calls to 10 other Wall Street types. Their range of answers ran along the same lines as that...
...other actors, however, took more liberties, occasionally getting up to stab another character or fall over in their seats to imitate death...
There's the temptation to search for the meaning of America in its popular culture (God help us) - in its movies, for example. I mentioned "American Beauty," and wondered aloud whether that meretricious piece of work said anything useful about America, or whether it simply represented a stab at profundity by slightly stupid moviemakers living overprivileged lives in places like Santa Monica and Brentwood. Some of the students, who liked the movie, reacted irritably. I admitted mine was the minority judgment...
...despised by the whole country as head of their party?" Inside Yugoslavia and out, nearly everyone is worried that democracy will be imperiled as long as Milosevic remains. "I don't trust a single word of Milosevic," said opposition spokesman Djindjic, warning that he would seek "to stab the nation in the back...