Or will they try to dismiss the massacre as the mere act of a deranged individual, and go on as before?
"The city was in the hands of criminals," Nuara told me, "and when Rosario was elected, they thought that they would go on as before".
Virtually nobody outside Cyprus would endorse the president's view that everything or indeed anything much, in the realm of diplomacy can go on as before, after the dramatic results of the vote among both Cypriot communities on April 24th.
Leaving, she can't wait to get back to her family in St . Petersburg "Thank God," she thinks, "tomorrow I'll see Seryozha and Alexei Alexandrovich, and my good and usual life will go on as before".
After all, it is difficult to manage what is not measured, and in the absence of good metrics we are inclined to go on as before, with the contributions made by nature appearing on very few profit-and-loss assessments, and thus leaving nature economically invisible and regarded as free.
The massacre calls for self-examination & for action, but if we deny the call & try to go on as before, as though nothing had happened, our knowledge which can never leave us once we have acquired it, will bring about an unnoticed but crucial alteration in us, numbing our most precious faculties and withering our souls.
Even after Sept. 11, especially in light of Microsoft's history, that you would agree to an inefficacious remedy that does not go to the heart of the case [and] allows Microsoft to go on as before".
"But the work is going to go on as before".
Now I'm glad to say that I only get like that 10 minutes before going on, as opposed to 14 hours".
