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...like an impeachment inquiry in search of a crime."It appears there's no strategy or plan," says TIME Washington Correspondent Viveca Novak. "Everyone is looking for leadership from either incoming Speaker Bob Livingston or retiring Speaker Newt Gingrich, but so far they haven't stepped up to the plate...
...link between the food on the plate and the living, breathing, warm-blooded creature (in the forest or in the commercial gulag-cum-slaughterhouse) is getting thinner by the year, to the point of metaphysical disconnect. The disconnect is a form of stupidity or of moral carelessness. How can anyone object to hunting but also eat meat raised in misery for the slaughterhouse? Who has clean hands? Surely not the consumers of the 38 million cows and calves, the 92 million hogs, the 4 million sheep and 7 billion chickens killed last year, to say nothing of the animals slaughtered...
...Court justices proclaimed, "confess by word or act" any particular view of "politics, nationalism, religion or other matter of opinion." The Supreme Court has protected under this aspect of free speech a Jehovah's Witness's refusal to salute the American flag and a refusal to carry a license plate with a libertarian state motto...
...certainly does not change the focus of the novella and his opera portrays the slowness with which life progresses for the Fromes--particularly for Ethan, whose long-defunct love of Zeena causes his perpetual agony. Although the opera's most dramatic scenes--the breaking of Zeena's prize pickle plate and the infamous sledding scene in which Mattie and Ethan encounter their fateful punishment--are a little played down, this seems appropriate when viewed from Wharton's original perspective. In their boring, puritanical New England lives, even their dramas were still anguishingly slow and more silently painful than outwardly loud...
...fork down next to the bowl and stare uncomfortably as the vegetables talk among themselves. They speak of things, shared experiences and hidden flavors we never knew existed. In our insecurity, we detect an angry stare from the tomatoes toward our untomato-ness, and we shrink away from the plate...