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...Tully was hardly thinking now, his mind fixed on pain and chopping and a vision of quitting time. Seeing a man go to the edge of the field, he rose and went to the foreman, who was suspicious but gave his permission. In the tall grass beside an irrigation ditch, Tully squatted a peaceful moment.” The seeming foray into social realism is actually a movement into second-order subversion; “Fat City,” even as it eschews its own genre conventions, declines shallow existential meditation in witness to the reality of the bare...
...city rich with monuments commemorating a nation, the one that stands above all is a dented green wall 37 feet tall, 240 feet long, and some 310 feet from home plate down the left-field lane,” the bottle’s white script reads...
...once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to create a global car empire on which to stamp his imprint. "It's a risky deal for Magna," says auto analyst George Magliano of IHS Global Insight. "But car assembly is something they really want to do." This ambition may be too tall an order for the Austrian-born Stronach, 76, whose entire career has been marked by both spectacular successes and failures. Most recently, his dream of creating a horse-racing and gaming empire collapsed when Magna Entertainment Corp., North America's biggest operator of racetracks, was forced into Chapter 11 earlier this...
...will be said by all but his fiercest critics that Ted Kennedy walked tall and far, given his superhuman burden. There was something genuinely noble about his refusal to give in, the way he picked himself up from the canvas, even when he had knocked himself down - maybe especially when he had knocked himself down. It was his fate to prove that the Kennedys weren't storybook princes conjured to life, and his triumph lies in the fact that he didn't let the myth stop him. His sister Eunice, who died two weeks before Ted (only Jean survives from...
...that is enough for the Palestinians, and may prove too much for Netanyahu's government partners - which is one reason why signs that the Israeli leader is considering giving up even a little ground in the middle are inspiring some hope. "Politics is often the art of finding ladders tall enough to provide leaders who've climbed trees too tall for them with a face-saving manner of climbing down," says Yossi Mekelberg, an associate fellow at the British think tank Chatham House and program director of international relations at Regents College in London. "That climbdown requires that small, careful...