Word: whitmans
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...admittedly a bit odd that we chose Andy Delbanco as America's best social critic. He is a historian of American literature, a man who looks back for a living, who reads and rereads, even in middle age, books like Moby-Dick and poems by Walt Whitman, stuff most of us leave behind after 11th grade...
...went home, packed a water bottle, my camera and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Since it was illegal to leave home without official authorization from the work unit, I sneaked back to my office and forged the necessary documents. Then, without saying goodbye to anyone, I left the red walls of Beijing behind and embarked on a three-year adventure to the most remote parts of China...
...When Whitman was picked to head the EPA, the prospects for this proposal seemed to brighten. But a series of Administration moves that alarmed moderates and sandbagged Whitman--including an about-face on pollution standards and withdrawal from the Kyoto global warming accord--suggested otherwise...
With Bill Clinton having issued a dredging plan last December, however, the newly arrived Bushies had to address the matter in some way. Lawmakers from New York asked for a meeting with Whitman, and though she ultimately sat down with them in July, she made them wait five months--not a good sign. Two weeks ago, EPA floated a proposal that would mandate dredging but scale down the scope of the work. For GE, which met with Whitman sometime before that, the plan was a valentine. "GE thought it had a deal," says an industry lobbyist...
...deal existed, it quickly foundered. On July 24, Pataki phoned Whitman and spoke to her like the cross-river colleagues they previously were. "He made it clear that we need to go forward in a full and comprehensive cleanup," says Pataki spokesman Michael McKeon. He might have also made it clear that he wants to be re-elected next year, and that he has a home along the river, in Garrison, N.Y. It did not help Pataki's mood that he felt slighted after lobbying Bush for a friend to be chosen for the ambassadorial posting in Rome, only...