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...Diminishment I find thee here and there unclear" is a line that reveals too much about this new book by Graham, a Pulitzer-prizewinning poet. The brilliant imagery that Graham has married to abstract thought in the past is often arid or withheld here, replaced by long drifts of spare and enigmatic statements or imperatives clothed in noble posturing. Yet when the poems do work (see particularly the title piece), Graham can still use language like a philosopher's spade to dig into experience--how we sense and think. These can be intoxicatingly deft moments, close to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Swarm | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...Columbine. How can we stop kids who will kill? Many need mental-health intervention. Many simply need someone their own age who gives a damn about them as a person. Teens want approval from their peers, and not getting it can lead to horrible consequences. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Sacramento, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...system of compensation includes "clawback" provisions, which withhold portions of bonuses contingent on future performance. Managers could lose the withheld portions if future investments perform below benchmark...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan and Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Compensation Dips for HMC | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Though two of the AFL-CIO's biggest unions, the Teamsters and United Auto Workers, withheld their endorsements last week in hopes of extracting trade protections from the Clinton Administration, the good news for Gore is that he managed to reel in the AFL without making those kinds of concessions. In effect he pulled a Bradley, telling unions they should trust him because of what he is, not what he will do. He glossed over the knottiest issue facing labor: the way free trade exports American jobs and suppresses American wages. And though free traders have proposals for dealing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Empire Strikes Back | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...even within a modern First Amendment framework, it still seems public funding could be withheld from any activity whose only purpose is the desecration, rather than the well-intentioned artistic presentation, of an alternative world view. After all, when government funds all manner of artistic visions equally and then steps back as they compete in the marketplace of ideas, it is merit that determines whatever establishment of truth ensues...

Author: By Bolek Z. Kabala, | Title: The Brooklyn Stink | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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