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...Protests, In Sum Quoth the Times: "Devotees of lively political protest, a fading art in recent decades, had something to cheer for and against today as an eclectic, ragtag assortment of causes snaked and howled through the heart of this city, giving pause to Republican conventioneers intent on decorum...
...image that comes to my mind is John Dewey doing a 360 in his grave. (Which, by the way, is the sum of the angle measures in a quadrilateral...
Since last year's summit, there has been a slow acceleration of forgiveness. And the 2001 U.S. foreign-aid bill, which passed the House last week, would provide for an additional $238 million. President Clinton complains that even that sum isn't enough, but Congress is reluctant to up the ante because, in part, it fears that too much forgiveness will invite future profligacy. Further deals, Clinton says, are a chance for the U.S. to share its prosperity with the rest of the world--and to ensure that prosperity continues...
...housing for refugees. Design can also be the point where art meets science--some of these creative characters use computers the way another generation used pencils. In the end, design can even be the place where art and commerce both meet metaphysics. It is, after all, mostly by the sum of what designers produce that we understand ourselves to be living in a particular time. Nature is so slow to change that we can hardly grasp the flow of things. It is the world we manufacture that shows us how time passes. "Then" was when things looked that...
...became endlessly specific about each trade, and put in motion, Homerically, each deckhand, stevedore, scholar, prostitute, drunkard, slave, "Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff," policeman, suicide, trapper, blacksmith, ploughboy, carpenter, contralto, spinning-girl, machinist, squaw, paving-man, flatboatman, fare-collector... on and on, the vast catalog of individualities making up the sum...