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...shrieked at the footman. “I told you to bring a stallion!”************In her modest chambers, Roxanna sat in a ray of sunlight, brushing her liquid cornsilk locks. She was only wearing her shift; it seemed foolish to put on more clothes when Frederick would be arriving at any minute.There was a knock at the door, and Roxanna leapt up, ready to greet Frederick with the basket of fresh biscuits she had made for him that morning. “Come in, my love!” she called.It was Felicity...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...real trillion dollars we are talking about spending. Even if we spend the money wisely (on bridges to somewhere), we or future generations will still have to pay it off, with interest. Or, more likely, we will inflate it away, along with the life savings of those who were foolish enough to save all their lives. It's just that the downside of doing nothing is worse. It's an easy choice, I guess. But let's not pretend that it's a happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stimulus Nation: Pump It Up | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...It’s a good time to be in a union,” he said, before noting that in such a large institution, it would be foolish to expect to avoid firings entirely...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Union To Meet With Dean Smith | 11/30/2008 | See Source »

...part, the Cabinet seems poised to prod the gay movement into being sleeker, faster, more tactical. When the remaining veterans of Stonewall march down Fifth Avenue next summer, those shimmeringly romantic, slightly foolish days of 1969 will have never seemed so distant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay Mafia That's Redefining Liberal Politics | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...profligacy is not an American monopoly but is common to all free-market democracies. The U.S. and the world have seen worse times, and this one too will pass, pessimists and naysayers notwithstanding. To predict "the end of the American era," as Michael Elliott does, is both premature and foolish. The U.S. still has a huge population of highly educated, smart and hard-working people who continue to excel in innovation and industry. Readers who live outside the U.S., as I do, have only to look around them to see how American products and culture have influenced their life. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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