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...production. Oil, gas and coal leases on federal land require a 12.5% gross royalty, but hard-rock mining pays nothing to the U.S., and a suitability review is an airy dream. Which is why mining-industry money has watered the grass roots of pro-development "wise use" groups such as People for the West. And why David Rovig, until recently president of Crown Butte, the outfit that has Yellowstone in its sights, solicited $1,000 contributions for Rahall's 1992 election opponent. Rahall won, but there is no certainty that his mining reform, now incorporated in a bill offered...
Stay near Yale. I'm not talking about sleeping in a Yale student's dorm room for the weekend. (You're probably planning on doing that anyway.) I mean that it's not wise to wander off campus. New Haven is a dangerous city, with many crime-and drug-infested neighborhoods not more than a few paces from many of the university's classrooms. Especially at night, try to stay inside Yale's gates, or at least very close to them. The more interesting areas of the city tend to be those closest to Yale anyway, so there's really...
...deity is still Bacchus. Most of the songs are uptempo exhortations -- anthems for Animal House. The rollicking Everything Louder Than Everything Else has a mantra ("A wasted youth is better by far/ Than a wise and productive old age") that could be the fight song for the University of Wisconsin marching band...
Those are wise words, and both Perot and his White House foes should heed them. NAFTA supporters do Americans no favor when they decry Perot's demagoguery and then employ demagogic and divisive tactics for their own purposes...
Doerr's poignant portrait never lapses into sentimentality. The narrative voice thrives on an impassive, ineffably wise, yet indulgent tone which must reflect Doerr's 83 years. She never takes the easy option: Her book contains no blatant contrasts, no crass symbolism, no fortuitous plot-twists. She takes pains to tell you what's going to happen, and then manages to surprise you when it does...