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...seems to me that Acme has quantifiable reasons for charging speeders for speeding. An SUV hurtling along at 83 m.p.h. rather than 65 m.p.h. costs more in wear and tear, accidents, insurance and lives. What critics quickly devolve to is the slippery slope: Where will it all end? Their answer: a police state...
...When I went to the Arizona Memorial and looked underneath, every 40 seconds a bubble surfaces. There are 1,177 dead entombed there. I felt like those bubbles were the bubbles of resentment of those dead. And I regret that. I shed a tear. Why do Americans feel anger toward Japan? Why do they still hate us? I understand...
...Well, a morning like Thursday immediately brings out people talking about a V-shaped recovery, for a rally like this to build on itself and the markets to go on an extended tear. But moments of optimism like this are the hallmark of any bear market - and every one's been a fakeout...
...alto saxophonist Steve Coleman, the guru of a group of young musicians in Brooklyn who were trying to find new ways of playing. Coleman got his followers interested in African music, in unusual harmonies and novel forms of organization. "From Steve Coleman," Wilson says, "I learned to tear a piece of music apart and get away from standard approaches. I learned about cycles of rhythm, being able to hear cues in the rhythms instead of chords. And I learned to hear the layering of rhythms. Before that, I had been only studying chords and standard A-A-B-A structured...
...Among the likely pressures on the judges was the possibility that a Pinochet trial would tear Chile in two, according to Cristobal Edwards, a TIME correspondent in Santiago. With Chileans divided between intense love and hate for their former ruler, a trial could have spurred a social civil war. "For months they've been trying to find a way out that suits everyone's needs," says Edwards...