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...produced. Beyond this point, however, his politics are naive. Nabokov was fond of arguing in vaguely libertarian terms: that the ideal state would be one where everyone left everyone else alone. With this, he would wash his hands of politics, along with philosophy, theology, ethics, and any other stray ideas...
...rainy night last month a half-grown stray moved into our house. Through the miracles of feline medicine, this new family member will likely be eating my plants, shinnying up my pants leg and sleeping on my face for the next 20 years. My parents didn't keep me that long...
Business and personal bankruptcies tripled in the past two years. There are also smaller signs of decay. Humane societies note an increase in reports of stray pets, as owners abandon animals they can no longer afford. Last Friday Jimmy Johnson showed up at a downtown Detroit center with two German shepherd pups. Said Johnson, out of work for two years since he was laid off by Chrysler: "It's either feed the dogs or feed the kids." Public amenities are disappearing: next summer all but the most popular state parks will have to close for lack of funds...
Travelers at London's Victoria Station eyed the police posters, stray bags and packages, and each other, then warily went about their business last week. On busy central London shopping streets, young bobbies stopped shoppers at random and asked to look at their packages and shopping bags. Big department stores were also making random searches of customers' parcels and pockets. Once again the I.R.A. was exploding bombs in London in random acts of terror...
...races were over. Team representatives frenetically tried to find out how their boats had fared, and regatta officials met to consider protests entered by the crews and assess penalties to crews and scullers for buoy violations. The scorers added ten seconds for each buoy beyond which the boat might stray, and then corrected the standings in each category accordingly...