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...else in the great coastal kingdom -- on through Yuba City, Copperopolis, San Jose, Fresno, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, the Salton Sea, San Isidro -- is the hunkered down, fearful middle-aged and the resentful, nihilistic youth who see no future and no present worth the trouble. Prisons are the state's sole growth industry. "More prisons were being built in California," Barich writes, "than anywhere else in the world. Frequently, they were built on farmland stripped of its value, gone to ... hardpan. Corporate farmers, the titans of agribusiness, often sold the dead land to the state for a handsome score." Go West...
...Francisco 49ers played a 7-3 game on a Monday night. Americans watching soccer will now identify that game as a fantastic defensive battle. Why not, when 1-0 baseball games are hailed as 'monumental pitchers' duels' and such? Why not, when New York Knick Anthony Mason's sole intelligible comment during the NBA Finals was, "I luv [sic] defense"? Television watchers will begin to enjoy the phenomenal passing, dramatic corner kicks and shots missed as much a shots scored...
...most avidly Stalinist ruler until his death in 1985, is broad in reach; a set of his collected works sprawls across a good meter of bookshelf. But the public's appetite never matched the government's passion for printing the dictator's often paranoid musings on Albania's sole true path to proletariat rule and his lonely struggle against nonbelievers. Since the 1991 fall of the communist government, some of Hoxha's tracts have been recycled as housing insulation, but at least 600 tons of the books are moldering expensively in Albanian warehouses. Last week the government announced a solution...
...made me skeptical of the [majority]institutions as the sole arbiter of justice andtruth," Carden says...
...shown no flair for it in his slow but successful tracking of Rommel across North Africa or his long pause in front of Caen. Nor could Eisenhower have shut down the hard-charging U.S. First and Third Armies to let the senior British general on the Continent claim sole credit for taking Berlin...