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...didn’t take a storm to take everything away from them,” Beasley said of the low-income victims in New Orleans. “Not only did it destroy the nicer parts of the city. It also destroyed the bad parts of town. Are we going to rebuild those parts? We cannot allow this possibility of a blessing to pass...
...stuff is pure cotton candy, the problems are very real--embarrassment, prejudice, depression, anger, poverty, death. "I was trying to subvert the genre," Rowling explains bluntly. "Harry goes off into this magical world, and is it any better than the world he's left? Only because he meets nicer people. Magic does not make his world better significantly. The relationships make his world better. Magic in many ways complicates his life...
...stops were long but no one was jostling and shoving, cars stopped to offer lifts, drivers waved pedestrians on, and bicycles-far more than usual and many in need of a few repairs-were out in force. London is sad but, against all odds, it feels like a nicer place to be today. -Michael Brunton...
...recalled that he had left his fur hat at Camp David. He had learned a bit about Iceland, he noted, from Tom Clancy's novel Red Storm Rising, which vividly depicts the island's crucial importance to NATO. He also remembered an astronaut's saying that the moon was nicer than training in Iceland...
...This place is so much nicer without those banners,” a friend said the other day as we walked through the Law School yard, articulating something simple but insightful about Harvard. When graduation rolls around, every yard around campus undergoes a sudden makeover. Tailored by teams of landscapers and decked out in tents and stages and banners, they become the centerpieces of the school’s famed pomp and circumstance, the sacrosanct, stately grounds of the old academy where Latinate phrases and laminate cards, heartfelt hugs and Kleenex, and clicking cameras abound. Of course, the glut...