Journal 65

What would happen if everyone wore the same clothes?

If every one were to wear the same cloth, then we would all be wearing the same cloth. We would all be dresed the same and we,ll be wearing the same cloth. The same shoes and the same cloth. If someone were to wear a hat then we would all wear a hat and the same cloth. No one would be uniqe. Every one would be the same and it will harder to look for someone. No one will have their own jacket, or own hat, or own shoes. Also we would be wearing the same cloth.

1. Survivors strained desperately on Wednesday against the chunks of concrete that buried Port-au-Prince, Haiti, along with thousands of its residents, rich and poor, from shantytowns to the presidential palace, in the devastating earthquake that struck late Tuesday afternoon. Calling the death toll “unimaginable” as he surveyed the wreckage, Haiti’s president, Rene Preival, said he had no idea where he would sleep.
2. A wave of American companies have been arriving in Iraq in recent months to pursue what is expected to be a multibillion-dollar bonanza of projects to revive the country’s stagnant petroleum industry, as Iraq seeks to establish itself as the world’s top oil producer.
3. Doctors have long hoped to discover a “morning-after pill” to blunt the often disabling emotional fallout from traumatic experiences. Now it appears that they have had one on hand all along: Morphine.
4. In the final days of the race for Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s seat, Martha Coakley — the Democratic candidate, state attorney general and onetime shoo-in for victory — is on the defensive. Polls have suggested that Scott Brown, the Republican opponent and until recently a little-known state senator, is gaining traction with unaffiliated voters and even some Democrats, electrifying a race that had seemed blandly predictable.
5. Lawyers for the national football league and an apparel company staked out aggressive positions at a Supreme Court argument Wednesday over whether the league should be treated as a single entity or a collection of 32 independent companies for purposes of the antitrust laws.