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Despite these problems, much of Woyzeck is striking and visually transfixing. A scene at the circus has a Barker (D'metruius Conley-Williams) preaching of double-natures, un-idealized reason and the sand dust and slime of man. A drunkard's monologue of earthly evil and the futile existence of man blends the tragic and the absurd. A dance-hall dream of Marie and a Drum Major, complete with droning music, torments Woyzeck and his remembrances...
Rather than sweeping the differences of ADD-diagnosed children under the rug, we must break out the vacuum of personal engagement and clean off the residue left by years of clinical and medicinal approaches. Only when the dust clears can those exceptional children in our ranks begin to show us what they have to offer in a constructive, healthy and productive...
...even better than it is now," commander Kenneth Bowersox said just before liftoff. Since its 1993 repair, the Hubble Space Telescope has consistently delivered breathtaking views of the universe as it existed almost at the beginning of time, along with snapshots of billowing clouds of hydrogen gas and dust, 1 million-mph galaxy collisions, and stunning red and blue close-ups of Mars and Neptune. It has also provided valuable evidence for the ongoing debate on the precise age of our universe. Now, with a new near-infrared camera and two-dimensional spectrograph, said NASA's chief Hubble scientist...
...battle may be against historical irrelevance, and there is ample evidence that he understands the difficulty of being a heroic leader in a democracy in a period of well-being and peace. No civil war, no winning of the West, no world wars (hot or cold), no depression, no Dust Bowl. Even Schlesinger admits democracies often are at their worst in good times...
...sure didn't look that way in 1989, after Lincoln bit the desert dust and Keating faced a series of highly publicized trials. Prosecutors vilified him as a high-living, white-collar sociopath, and he was convicted on no less than 90 federal and state counts of fraud, racketeering and conspiracy. The main charges: that he directed the sale of fraudulently marketed junk bonds to tens of thousands of Lincoln customers and that he orchestrated a series of sham real estate transactions to inflate Lincoln's profits. Packed off to prison in handcuffs and chains under the glare...