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...scary company already know how big and scary it is." But there was a big rush on satellite dishes in Houston last week, and a heightened sensitivity to the power of the cable companies. Officials in many cities have been looking toward Portland, Ore., which drew upon its power to approve a change in ownership of the city's cable systems to win concessions from AT&T when it acquired the previous Portland cable operator in 1998. While the FCC has since taken Portland to court, and no one expects that an individual city council could really stop...
...great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities, this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it--the prodigal, pure human kindness of it--must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow...
...roughly 30). Kanfer excels in these saddest decades not because he's engaged in the black art of what Joyce Carol Oates calls "pathography," but because this is the period he can document most intimately through interviews with surviving witnesses. Necessarily, earlier sections of the book are largely built upon the unreliable memoirs of the Marx brothers and painstaking analyses of the brothers' movies...
...King spoke - "I have a dream today...." - great preacherly cadences rolling across moral topography, mountains, mighty streams, imperatives. Centuries of history had coalesced in irresistible manifestation, the trespass of No Power into the home of Power, the multitudes of Don't Exist insisting, in the eloquence of their numbers, upon their own existence. The March on Washington was a powerful thing...
Troilus and Cressida opens with the Greek forces, led by Menelaus' brother Agamemnon, having continually besieged Troy for the previous seven years. Shakespeare concentrates on the opposition between the Greek hero Achilles and the Trojan Hector. Troilus and Cressida is considered a tragedy, playing upon the death of its tragic hero, Hector. Shakespeare also shows how the war caused by one love affair destroys another. The stories of the love between the Trojan Troilus and the Grecian Cressida, encouraged by her uncle Pandarus and of Cressida's desertion of Troilus for the Greek Diomedes, are medieval additions to the heroic...