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...there were a few prisoners at the show. One of them was an old man. I got talking to him and he said he was in for murder. I asked him how long he'd been in, and he said, "Eighteen years." And I said, "Well, when do you get out?" and he said, "I don't. I still got life...
...have a nagging perception that if things don't get done on time, all hell will break loose. On election night, we've been trained to expect the networks to call states the instant the polls close. We want results - and we want them now. And then, suddenly, there was no result on election night. There was no result the next day. There was no result for three dozen days...
...election was not accomplished in "Internet time." It was more in keeping with 18th-century standards, when the founders allowed weeks for electors to get to their capitols by horseback, and letters sometimes took months to reach their destination...
...life without arbitrary dates could get a little dull. "Is there no change of death in paradise?" the poet Wallace Stevens wrote. His idea was that paradise would be infinitely tedious because nothing ever really changed, and it is change that makes life interesting...
...Barak, of course, is not naïve enough to believe he can get a final peace deal in the next four to five weeks, despite the last-ditch effort by President Clinton Wednesday to interest both sides in a comprehensive U.S. settlement proposal that would give the Palestinians 90 percent of the lands occupied by Israel in 1967, and split sovereignty over Jerusalem in a complex formula. Nobody is particularly optimistic about the deal flying at this late stage. For one thing, it may be only a matter of weeks before "The Bulldozer," whose nickname was earned largely...