25 YEARS AGO IN REASON.* "Nobody liked General Motors long before they'd ever heard of Ralph Nader--it's part of the whole antibigness thing in the American culture. But people like me who are in many ways in a totally spoiled position--I'm paid to sit around and play with symbols and react, you know, effectively to all kinds of symbols. I can work up a big froth over General Motors for far longer periods of time than most of our fellow countrymen fellow countryman n → compatriota m fellow countryman fellow irreg n → compatriote m fellow countryman fellow , who can only work up very short froths over GM." --An Interview with Nicholas von Hoffman Nicholas von Hoffman is an American journalist and author of German-Russian extraction, descendant of Melchior Hoffman and son of Carl von Hoffman. He became famous as a columnist for the Washington Post * "The lesson business has learned [in developing coal on the Crow reservation in Montana] has been unmistakable: It is cheaper to influence the Bureau of Indian Affairs The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is an agency of the federal government of the United States within the Department of the Interior charged with the administration and management of 55.7 million acres (87,000 sq. into cajoling tribes to accept cheap terms than to offer tribes fair market value outright." --Russell L. Barsh, "Ripping (1) Converting an audio CD from its native CD-DA format to MP3, AAC or some other compressed audio format. When the term was coined, it had a perverse meaning. Many loved the idea they were "ripping off" the music industry by making copyrighted works available in a compact format off Indian Energy" * "The modern State fails to discharge the elementary duty, which even some despotic states managed to do in the past, [of] protect[ing] its citizens from the force and fraud of each other....The American citizen now walks in his city at night, and not infrequently in·fre·quent adj. 1. Not occurring regularly; occasional or rare: an infrequent guest. 2. by day, at his peril." --Arthur Shenfield, "Must We Abolish the State?" |
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