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...until two months ago to identify the 418 sites it regards as most dangerous. Of those, it has cleansed only five. Meanwhile, roiling criticism of the agency and its controversial administrator, Anne Gorsuch, attracted the attention of two congressional subcommittees, which began investigating charges that the EPA had made "sweetheart" deals with polluting companies and delayed cleanups for political reasons. When Gorsuch refused in December to turn over subpoenaed documents pertaining to 160 Superfund sites, she was cited for contempt of Congress-the first time in history for a Cabinet-level official...
...This sweetheart here, this little baby, looks like any ordinary machine, isn't that so? A mess of screws and buttons, a whole heap of plastic. Comes with new words too: RAMS and ROMS. Think that's what the machine is made of, do you?the hardware and the software and the mouse? Not a chance. The computer is made of you, lady. It's got you all inside it. You wished it here. No, not to do your taxes or to teach you German or to whip you in Pac-Man four out of five. You wished it here...
...Times wrote, "did not talk about Watergate." Instead, Rose Marx Woods saluted her old boss as "the most honorable man this country ever produced." "After a standing ovation, the group joined hands and sang 'God Bless America. Nixon then strode to a piano and played 'Let me Call You Sweetheart.'" He ended his remarks by quoting Theodore Roosevelt. "The credit," Nixon began, "belongs to the man...who, at the worst, if he jails, at least jails while daring greatly." Many eyes filled with tears...
FICTION: Mantissa, John Fowles -A Midnight Clear, William Wharton Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene My Old Sweetheart, Susanna Moore Selected Stories, Robert Walser The Third World War, General Sir John Hackett
...that "what you saw there became your definition of suffering. And mere human, everyday suffering means nothing to you." She knows that he is sleeping with a young native girl, and this knowledge undermines her already unsteady self-confidence. She leans emotionally on her daughter Lily ("my old sweetheart"); the twelve-year-old girl must learn to inject Anna with drugs, care for her younger brother and sister and helplessly watch her family disintegrate. She must also, years later, find the strength to put the past behind...