Word: existence
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While Archer affirms that "great American cities that have less than a million people" do exist, he doesn't want his to be one of them. But why? Perhaps he is longing for his beloved city to return to the bygone days when it was America's industrial center, the heart of the auto industry...
Thank you for your coverage of the infant-mortality rate and death of new mothers in Rwanda and for bringing to the world's attention--again--the terrible problems that still exist in parts of Africa [WORLD, April 17]. We are glad to learn how to respond to the International Rescue Committee and Netaid project, but please publish an address for those of us who don't have computers or don't want to use our credit card on the Internet. ANNE E. CORLEY Bristol...
...white marble public spaces (Mall, Lincoln Memorial, Reflecting Pool) of a city I knew to be so intensely segregated that it replicated a southern plantation (grand edifices for the whites, slave quarters off somewhere out of sight, the capital city's terrible metaphysical division: White-Black, Power-No Power, Exist-Don't Exist). My surprise turned to wonder: at the sheer numbers, at the people, dignified, well-dressed (men in starched short-sleeved white shirts and narrow ties and pressed slacks, women in neat summer church dresses), the Constitution's right of peaceable assembly come to life...
Then King spoke - "I have a dream today...." - great preacherly cadences rolling across moral topography, mountains, mighty streams, imperatives. Centuries of history had coalesced in irresistible manifestation, the trespass of No Power into the home of Power, the multitudes of Don't Exist insisting, in the eloquence of their numbers, upon their own existence. The March on Washington was a powerful thing...
...billion in damage, but it's not quite clear whether the authors of the "Love Bug" virus actually committed a crime. The reason is that the virus was launched in the Philippines, which doesn't have the same stringent body of laws governing behavior on computer systems as exist in the U.S. and some other industrialized countries. Government and business representatives from the G8 industrialized nations met in Paris Monday to discuss proposals for dealing with a new generation of cross-border, or more correctly, borderless crimes - after all, the Love Bug was a sharp and painful reminder that...