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...course, Dole did not go along, and the whole story was exposed and made public, but the Morris incident is a window to the inner workings of politics in Washington. It seems as though tunnel vision on the part of politicians hurts the American people in the long run because it necessitates third-railing. The federal budget negotiations were third-railed and resulted in an impasse. Schools all over the country floundered to make crucial staff decisions without knowing how much money they would receive from Uncle Sam. Result: contingency layoffs, and the impasse had even more far-reaching results...
...rode the streetcar and bus to North Capitol and Eye streets, to a neighborhood called Swampoodle. Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop...
...Scotia, Nickerson moved his wife and two children to Epsom from Gloucester seven years ago. His son will soon graduate high school and hopes to attend Bentley College in Waltham. The Frito-Lay man, accompanied by his two daughters, walks through the door and past the sign in the window listing the fees for various hunting permits. As the guardian of the potato chip aisle attends to his business, Nickerson writes up the transaction without the assistance of a computer billing package...
Davis has liberally decorated his suite in Richardson Hall, the oldest dormitory in campus, with Forbes paraphernalia, including a brightly-colored poster and Forbes quote hanging from his window...
...etchings make perfect sense within the development of his work: by using the whitest paper and darkest ink available, he achieves a high contrast which evokes the stark, lonely quality of his paintings. The subject matter and mood anticipate those of his more renowned work: American streets and window scenes in which the human figures seem merely part of the still and vastly solitary environment...