Word: lets
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...possible to tease some hopeful signs from the ice-head's resume. Though he has let the military manage the war in Chechnya, for instance, U.S. officials say Putin, unlike Yeltsin, seems to be ultimately in control. Visiting U.S. officials like Attorney General Janet Reno have been impressed that Putin realizes corruption poses a major threat to the creation of a market economy in Russia. If this is so, Putin is in for a struggle. The fight against corruption could turn out to be the defining theme of a Putin presidency. The fact remains that his ascent to power...
...road; but on an island 1,300 miles from the nearest inhabited landmass (Pitcairn, pop. 65), all such disturbances pass like a distant storm at sea. "The race is not to the swift," wrote D.H. Lawrence in the past millennium, "but to those that can stand still/ and let the waves go over them...
...region but had no map to tell me where such romantic-sounding places as Seal Cove or Owl's Head were. So I had to log on to mapblast.com to locate each one, then return to slogging through listings. My computer was choking under the strain. Another site, vacationspot.com let me zero in on cabins and cottages. I got 50 matches right off, but most of the rentals turned out to be closed for the winter--something I learned only after reading a lot of fine print. I tried branching out and found a "millennium special" in Tennessee's Smokey...
...Rothko on the boardroom wall does not turn the saber-toothed CEO into Bambi and that some of the nastiest beasts in history, such as Hermann Goring, have been sincere and knowledgeable art lovers. Moreover, being an important collector doesn't even show that you have halfway decent manners, let alone morals. Witness the late Dr. Albert Barnes, who before World War I became a multimillionaire from selling a snake oil called Argyrol. He bought a huge collection--175 Renoirs, 66 Cezannes, 65 Matisses--and built a foundation around them, but Philadelphia still remembers him mainly as a geek...
...feel pity for Klebold and Harris. How do we let kids get so lost, feel so alone, that they would do something like this? Their actions were not the fault of their parents or their teachers. These boys were simply victims of the way our society treats teenagers, and they changed from lonely, outcast little boys to violent, homicidal young boys. LANI BROWN Portales...