Word: sunsetting
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...SUNSET STROLL The small island of Ko Kred, about 10 km north of Bangkok, makes for a wonderful escape from the oppressive crush of the city's streets. The lush island is known for the fine quality of its clay and its skilled artisans who craft intricately decorated pottery as well as the more utilitarian red flowerpots seen all over Bangkok. The concrete path that circles the 1,000 hectare island can be walked in about an hour and a half. Go in the late afternoon, when the air is cooler and families sit out on their front porches preparing...
...example. The day is fading. The tartans, or lateen-rigged fishing boats, triangular scraps of white sail on the blue, are flocking back to port. The pallid horizon is delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house and lavender rocks, is already darkening. But the sunset has lit up the prismatic shape of the headland to a blazing orange-yellow, a thrilling and almost transcendent intensity. It is the kind of painting that can absorb any amount of looking, and after 10 minutes with it you can appreciate how Signac grasped the sensuous abundance...
Civil libertarians are worried that what they see as the Bush Administration's post-Sept. 11 rights grab on all these different fronts will be with us forever. Congress insisted on applying the sunset rule to many provisions of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the main new law to come out of the Sept. 11 attacks: if they are not passed again in four years, they disappear. But unlike Roosevelt's 1942 military-tribunal order, which authorized just one trial, Bush's order on tribunals has no end date. Attorney-client monitoring is also open-ended...
Lisa A. Taggart ’91 was editor of “What Is To Be Done?” in 1990. She is now a staff travel writer at Sunset Magazine in California...
...Would you care to comment about your Sunset Heights fracas...