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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 11, 1993                   TAG: 9303110423
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-14   EDITION: METRO 
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TIME TO CLEAN UP NATION'S MESS

ON THE MORNING after President Clinton's Feb. 17 speech, I came across one of John Cage's writings from the early '70s - by chance. (Cage would have loved that!) It goes:

"The party's nearly over. But the guests are going to stay: they have no place else to go. People who weren't invited are beginning to arrive. The house is a mess. We must all get together and without saying a word clean it up." FRANK EASTBURN ROANOKE

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