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Show OrenvGeneva Times Wednesday, November 22, 1995 Page 3 '6808 fe v efe wSeiiol to MB f feiliging i by Reva Bowen City Editor "These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike," said the 19th century American philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Attesting to the wisdom of Emerson's statement is the current condition of world, national, and state affairs certainly as "serious" and at least as calamitous as in Emerson's time. Balkan peace talks were "balanced on a knife's edge", according ac-cording to weekend news reports, with United States State Department Depart-ment spokesman NicholasBurns warning Bosnia's warring and negotiating Muslim, Serb, and Croatian factions that they "shouldn't be under any expectation expecta-tion that they have another 18 days" to continue talks.New-sanalysts talks.New-sanalysts hypothesized that the comments were intended to pressure pres-sure the parties to reach some sort of agreement within several days at the U.S.-led talks at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Other international interna-tional news headlines manifested a mix of tragedies, lawsuits, border bor-der closings for refugees, arrests, slayings, and weather-disasters.TheThansgiving weather-disasters.TheThansgiving 1995 it also finds much of the nation in a state of ill will toward Washington. The Republican-controlled Republican-controlled Congress became locked lock-ed in a budget impasse with President Clinton, who vetoed the lawmakers' budget plan. The government was sent into partial shut-down Tuesday, November 14, with the presidential veto also canceling a provision for more federal money borrowing. ' Though it looks now like the two sides have come to agreement, agree-ment, some citizens viewed the wrangling as another case of politicians' childish grandstanding and tantrum-throwing, tantrum-throwing, while others, like political commentator George F. Will, saw the impasse as proof that the government can work in the face of conflicting views on its role in people's lives. Will wrote, "It is working. We rightly revere the Constitution's subtle framers because they produced a system of checks and balances and separation of powers that can produce inaction when that is appropriate. ap-propriate. Today's paralysis is the inaction of a government accurately ac-curately reflecting strong crosscurrents in the country." ' Will continued, "For years, the public has pounded its milk cup on its highchair tray, demanding 'change and an end to 'politics as usual'. Now both are occurring, and the public is whining, not recognizing that this is what politics looks like when the stakes are high and serious politicians take them seriously." Utah politics have been thrust into the national limelight with the bizarre and continuing story of Representative Repre-sentative Enid Waldholtz' financial, personal, and political politi-cal problems. The budget battles bat-tles in Washington probably temporarily spared Waldholtz from even more national exposure, ex-posure, but the story is finding its niche in the national consciousness, con-sciousness, and looks to be one that will remain front page news for days to come as the scandal and its consequences unravel. To those who may be looking look-ing for personal peace at this time of year, amid the maelstroms political and otherwise that surround us all, this prayerful poem from Henry Van Dyke seems appropriate: ap-propriate: "These are the gifts I ask of Thee, Spirit serene: Strength for the daily task, Courage to face the road, Good cheer to help me bear the traveler's load, And, for the hours of rest that come between, be-tween, an inward joy of all things heard and seen." PIANO MID ORGAN I Ml 1 r i ri r i v y r-- r u p To) u l r (QMi: mmam New Christmas stock is arriving...old stock must go! ?ES D,gital p,anos by: 3two days only Yamaha FrL - Sat. J iKSr Nov. 24-25 Technics i a 7 . V 6 Months I rVhVij i A J5ame as Cash f " y . oac v Pianos by: Young-Chang Kimball Charles Walter Seiler 8 used pianos to choose from 60 vertical oianns in chnnse fmm T y w iaiiu planus aiaiunz ai x .tv A '150 per month i ; :7 : bnim' SOI N. 1200 IV. o Orom 225-7922 I I J . 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