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There are plenty of such painful and embarrassing passages to be found here, along with some scattered bursts of the magic that Hemingway could consistently command earlier in his career: "White flowers had blossomed in the night so that with the first daylight before the sun had risen all the meadows looked as though a full moon was shining on new snow through a mist...
...notes, has created a stunning 15.5 million jobs since the end of 1993, even after subtracting job losses due to corporate downsizing. And two-thirds of these jobs pay more than the median wage for all U.S. jobs. By no coincidence, average U.S. real income has also risen in the past two years, after a long period during which wages rose less than prices. Result: consumers are willing to spend heavily, which creates still more jobs and higher incomes...
...surprising that some Americans think of China as an upstart world power. During the past century, the U.S. has risen to world leadership while China was brought to its knees by instabilities introduced into its society as a result of European imperialism. But China was a world leader two millenniums before this country was "discovered" by the Europeans. Throughout most of its history, the Chinese empire has not been particularly interested in territorial expansion. That the Chinese have done so little with the alleged stolen "secrets" supports this view. Americans would do well to see China as a former world...
...Owns Anne Frank?" asked novelist Cynthia Ozick, in an article that holds up the diary as a sacred text and condemns any tamperers. The passions the book ignites suggest that everyone owns Anne Frank, that she has risen above the Holocaust, Judaism, girlhood and even goodness and become a totemic figure of the modern world--the moral individual mind beset by the machinery of destruction, insisting on the right to live and question and hope for the future of human beings...
Molly Hennessy-Fiske '99, the Radcliffe orator, spoke of the historical plight of women over the last century--but cited the progress made by female members of her own class who have risen to the top of campus student organizations...