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China was sinking into civil war.
Lingering question from l'affaire Lawrence for assignment editors: Why not do a story about how Lawrence came to seize upon the Bushnell sinking as the fabric for his fiction?
The sun was sinking out of sight at the end of 43 rd Street, where signs no longer read "43 rd Street" but instead "43 rd Street: Adolph S. Ochs Street," in tongue-twisting homage to the patriarch of the New York Times . Five or six neon-striped storefronts seem to have sprouted in the past five or six days.
Commentators chuckled that the GOP was replaying its '96 Dole catastrophe, clinging fast to a sinking ship.
The coming of the rain has only added weight to the sinking realization that I'm about as free as Pavlov's best friend, acting as it does as cold evidence of geographical determinism--the idea that the landscape shapes the human culture that thrives within it.