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Report from Ground Zero
… that my brother was working on an audit for a reinsurance company that was a subsidiary of Guy Carpenter, part of … the officials planned for a memorial service on October 26. Rebecca went to visit a friend in Cleveland, and the two … wooden form. We gathered in a circle around this sturdier memorial arrangement. After what seemed like a long …
Old Catawba
… West. Upon this area, which is a little smaller than the combined areas of England and Wales, there live about three … Joe demands with a broad wink around at his listening audience. “It’s a two-eyed mule,” the first man says … the Pettigrews, the Pentlands, etc.—is remarkable, as is also a marked Scottishness of physique, a lean, angular, …
Democratic Ends and Totalitarian Means
… in order to enable those end-values to survive and to become more effective. Ends and means in politics are not … No age has a pipeline to the infinite. After many a summer dies not only the swan but also much of the equipment both … make between ends and means. There are supposed to be two points of view—one, that the ends justify the means; the …
The Pharmakos
The Pharmakos Your parents leave you with the roots Of their own lives in your hand, You who with your own life pulled their life up, Dirt falling from the onion’s bulb Back into dirt. Ritual in the morning light Each generation repeats, muscle Strong at …
The Idea of Let Us Alone
… the ideas now vehemently asserted in forums, chambers of commerce, and legislative halls, probably none is more … to strict controls. Southern planters were doughty individuals, no doubt, but they did not compete savagely among … he condensed to one chapter Mill’s two chapters on remedies for low wages; he reduced by about one-half Mill’s …
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Personal Day
… They served omelettes stingy with filling and magnificently complicated fruits—soaked mulberries, candied lemon, papaya crescents, cubes of heirloom melon, a … her eleven-dollar egg, scooped the white, and dipped toast points in the molten yellow, thinking nothing of it as I …
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