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...this year, in his fight with Congress over the Civil Rights Act, George Bush again tried to stir racial fears. He continually--and incorrectly--called the Act a "quota bill" that would require employers to hire unqualified job applicants...
Monarchs minister to the psyche as well as the polity; they give a focus for a country's collective libido. Americans don't need kings to stir our souls because we have attached our deepest feelings to the myths and documents of our founding: Paul Revere's ride and George Washington at Valley Forge; the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Democracies that lack such myths can be emotionally naked. A constitutional monarch supplies the mythic dimension in a convenient package. Winston Churchill, who was both a partisan pol and an ardent monarchist, believed that if defeated Germany...
Cobb said he found his second entree choice--walnut, broccoli and tofu stir-fry--much more satisfactory...
Cobb estimated that in the average restaurant he reviews, his meal would have cost $7-9 for the shrimp, $1.25-1.50 for the soup, $5-6 for the tofu stir-fry, $1.25-1.50 for the cake, and extra for the roll, salad bar and drinks. That adds up to at least $15 and probably closer to $20 for the entire dinner, if he had bought each item separately...
Vincent O'Neill's performance in Joyicity defies the term monologue. He plays more than 40 Joycean characters, interspersed with renditions of the author himself. For long-time Joyce fans, his impersonations will stir up recollections of the devilishly spirited "Gracehopper" in Finnegan's Wake and the roaring Citizen in Ulysses. But even for the uninitiated, O'Neill makes Joyce accessible...