When I inveighed against this impending sellout a couple of weeks ago, thousands -- no kidding, an unprecedented torrent -- of e-mails came roaring in, many beginning "Though I consider you a rightwing nutcase on most issues, I'm 100% with you against this big-media power grab".
In the beginning, perhaps predictably, I considered simply replacing what I was losing.
As the ship began to move, and I considered how annoyed Doug would be if I'd been wrong about the bird, I rediscovered the little iceberg.
It finally began to budge when I considered the idea that a car stopping in the dark to give a child a ride does not automatically contain a predator.
A charge happened: (There was an opening, a breath, I saw myself wanting to go straight to the bar. I noticed it was a reaction. There was a space there. I began to see... I considered not going).
I began considering it the way I considered basic, everyday tasks.
"It is no accident that the first work I considered publishable began: 'I stand here ironing,' and what you asked me moves tormented back and forth with the iron," Olsen said, in talk she delivered at Radcliffe College, where she was on fellowship in 1962.
Murdoch came in, sat down and said, 'Before you begin, I hear you are considering a reference to the Monopolies Commission.
"At the very beginning, when we had the idea, I considered this exhibition to be a utopia," he said.
Negotiators early this morning settled wage and health care disputes that had prompted the strike that began on Oct. 1. "I consider this a win, a clear win, for our members," said Peter Benner, executive director of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 6, one of the two striking unions that negotiated the agreement.
