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...editorial published Monday, it was objected that the policy of the Red Cross is equivalent to barring African-Americans from giving blood because African Americans experience higher rates of HIV infection than Caucasians. I now have about three weeks of statistics behind me, and I could launch into a tirade about the difference between causation and correlation and correlation and how it applies to this case...
Wilson chose political expediency in his bid for re-election in 1994 and, in so doing, alienated so many disparate groups that he lacks any solid base from which to launch a national campaign...
...people are dying every day: six on March 18, 18 on May 6, three on May 11, seven on May 21, seven on July 20, 12 on July 21, seven on July 28. In November, Islamists launch a bloody new campaign against innocent civilians, massacring villagers throughout the countryside by the scores: 31 in one village, 18 in another, 19 in a third. The five-year toll reaches into the tens of thousands...
DeLillo answers carefully, "I wanted to write a book that would locate itself at the interface of the real world and the searches that people and institutions launch to understand it." He admits that the writer, during the age he chronicles, has become "a marginal figure," reduced to "observing from the edge." Underworld should thrust DeLillo, whether he likes it or not, into the hot center...
...wide-open spaces, in touch with the eternal verities. The place is already Disneyfied: Climb Mount Rhino, the resting place of the family pets as well as Ronnie's steed Little Man! Visit Heart Rock, where Ronnie and Nancy carved their initials! See where Queen Elizabeth slept! Launch a boat on Lake Lucky, the pond where Reagan kept his goldfish! But don't expect Wally World, or even the run of the place. The ranch is likely to be available for private tours by appointment only. What do you expect for $5 million...