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...everyone is thrilled with the Army's increasing involvement. "There are legitimate worries about military intervention in domestic affairs," says Ralph Lewis, disaster-response expert at Florida International University. At one shelter in predominantly black Richmond Heights, the soldiers seemed more interested in raising the flag while exhausted Red Cross volunteers struggled to feed 6,000 people a day. "I'm trying to use the military as much, but they like to do things their own way," sighed music teacher Thomas Moore, 29, the Red Cross volunteer in charge of the shelter. "It's true the Red Cross is disorganized...
...that can be thought can be written," says Rhodes, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fair enough, but writing explicitly about sex requires a more delicate touch. It takes only a few pages to realize he is in the grip of graphomania. Flesh must become word. His style swings from confessional to clinical, from pop psych to steamy paperback prose: "Her body fired explosively, every muscle contracting, and her back arched grand mal off the bed from the abutments of her feet and her shoulders." A passage comparing his own orgasm to a thermonuclear explosion may start a chain reaction of giggles...
About six months ago, I was knocking on doors in New Hampshire, pitching a Ralph Nader presidency as the solution to America's problems...
...ahead of my time. Since February, the anti-incumbent, anti-Washington, anti-politician mood has coalesced behind one unlikely leader--not consumer advocate Ralph Nader, but Texas billionaires Ross Perot...
...makes me queasy, and it makes me wish the Perot followers had listened to Ralph Nader back in February...