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...teachers and store owners and bureaucrats--who are prepared to give all their time and muscle to putting things right, making a place better. To the outsider, it would seem so much easier just to pick up and move on. Trying to stay, and to change, is an act of faith...
...threat justifying such a deployment. But in 1998, North Korea test-fired the Taepo Dong-1, a long-range, three-stage missile that indicated Pyongyang was well on its way to building a missile capable of reaching U.S. soil. And so, last year, Clinton signed the National Missile Defense Act into law. It calls for the construction of an antimissile system "as soon as technologically possible...
...when I.G.I. went after another group, the Association for Competitive Technology, it got caught. I.G.I. investigators rented space in ACT's Washington building under a false name and had an intermediary offer the building's cleaning crew $1,200 for ACT's garbage. The janitors refused the offer and reported the attempted bribe...
...writer to avoid the specter of William Faulkner. The world he created in Yoknapatawpha County, perhaps the best-known plot of literary real estate, exerts its influence over the aspirations of the region's writers and the expectations of readers and critics. It could therefore be construed as an act of either bravado or foolishness that Randall Kenan, who lives in Memphis and was raised in North Carolina, has also constructed a fictional Southern locale, a swampy speck called Tims Creek, N.C. "I could have run," says Kenan, 37, of the inevitable comparisons, "but I'd be spending...
...recent Supreme Court ruling against a Texas high school's prayers before football games, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, "[P]regame prayer has the improper effect of coercing those present to participate in an act of religious worship." The public-school district had argued that attendance at football games was voluntary and "decidedly extracurricular." Because I played high school football in Texas in the 1980s, one aspect of Justice Stevens' majority response to this distinction struck home to me. By pointing out that "team members themselves" have to be there, he defended those of us who were simply feverish...