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...Starve the beast?? has been the mantra of anti-tax Republicans for decades. But, so far, depriving the “beast??—big government—of revenue hasn’t led to starvation. The beast has had a credit card, a card with a seemingly perennial teaser rate and a credit limit it can more or less set itself. Republican politicians, who would have lost their power to vote tax cuts to their wealthy donors if they hadn’t been re-elected, have not wanted to be implicated...
...anecdotes exude an exotic mystique, generating a certain sense of fantasy. One wonder how can such a people, such a place exist? Take Everett’s story of his brush with a giant anaconda. After he veers his small boat, laden with his family, out of the beast??s path he manages to just catch it with his propeller. “Then a second later the entire snake’s body stood up out of the water, towering above the boat....I looked at the entire length of the snake’s whitish underbelly...
...begrudge them cigarettes and cell phones, alcohol and drug use, unmarried sex, and even their ability to have children, forgetting King Lear in Act II: “O, reason not the need!... / Allow not nature more than nature need, / Man life’s as cheap as beast??s.” Instead, let’s look to Act III: “Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, / That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, / And show the heavens more just.” In a society of ever-increasing...
...though he described the coming months’ tasks with precision and authority, he was barely conscious of his own speech. Zalathal’s flanks were dark with sweat, and The Stable Boy, now shirtless, was pouring cool water from a bucket all down the curve of the beast??s spine. Frederick gave himself completely to the scene before him. He wondered what The Stable Boy would say if Frederick offered to rub him down...
...chief of staff, Shepard was charged with managing what he calls the “unwieldy beast??—a campaign of over 150 student volunteers...