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...insecurity of our times. Call it the economic insecurity of the post-industrial economy: the falling wages of those without college degrees and their search to find meaningful work in the information age. Or call it the ideological insecurity of the post Cold war era: the shades of gray that have covered a world that once appeared to be divided...
...announcement was a stunner. Wearing a conservative gray suit that matched his habitual gray demeanor, Prime Minister John Major strode across the lawn of the rose garden behind 10 Downing Street and announced to a hastily assembled press conference that enough was enough. He had become weary, he declared, of "a small minority" that was disrupting his Conservative Party and undermining his position. With the bright summer sunshine streaming over his shoulder, Major threw down the gauntlet. Rather than wait until November for a possible challenge to his leadership--and endure months of politically damaging backbiting in between...
...LAST TIME I SAW Cleveland, her park was worn and gray. The press box in Cleveland Stadium was shrouded in cobwebs. The Indians on the field that season--1985--were on their way to losing 102 games. A solitary fanatic in the last row of the distant bleachers was banging a drum slowly to wake up either the offense or the ghosts of the past. George Vukovich stood where Rocky Colavito once stood. The 5,000 people rattling around the 74,208-seat Temple of Doom looked as if they wanted to wipe the stupid grin off the face...
Placed squarely between Widener Library and Boylston Hall is a gray sculpture that looks like some kind of turtle-lion hybrid. It's Ch'ing Dynasty original, carved before 1821, and donated in 1936 by the Harvard Club of Shanghai...
...from the Carpenter Center, as a glorified Lego set. Its stripes were originally supposed to be pink and green to match the rooftiles of nearby Memorial Hall. But since pink and green bricks weren't structurally sound enough, the University had to settle for its second choices, orange and gray...