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Getting around town isn't very difficult, although bus drivers do drive with a reckless abandon that would awe even a Boston native...
When they returned to Germany to try to restore what they had been forced to abandon 23 years earlier, they had to start from scratch all over again...
Unfortunately, "Old Flame," an excellent tune, is also the shortest song on the album. Although keeping songs short and sweet is an admirable goal, this album is hardly a goldmine of memorable melodies, and The Church could ill afford to abandon this one so abruptly...
Nonetheless, Scully does not tread wearily through the book's itinerary (ancient Greek and Roman architecture, the Gothic cathedrals of France, Renaissance Florence, Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, etc...); rather, he takes to it with abandon, incorporating a sensitivity to the literary and cultural context that surrounds the buildings he studies, and using a sparkling rhetorical style that enlivens a subject liable to be wearied by either dense technical jargon or the purple prose of art speak...
...such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, but Bush himself glossed over the proposal in his speech, evidently afraid to use the politically charged word entitlement on national television. The next day, Budget Director Richard Darman backed further away from the cap, acknowledging that the White House would gladly abandon the controversial idea if Congress thought it unwise -- as it surely will. Too bad. Congress could go home and congratulate itself, said Republican Congressman Alex McMillan of North Carolina last week, "if we don't pass one other item out of the President's budget except for this...