On the 19th floor of a downtown office building, the view down the Columbia and Willamette rivers to the West is achingly beautiful when one is working in a temp job that keeps one chained to a computer doing discovery fro the defendant in a major law suit--outside on the thermals above downtown a peregrine falcon floats lazily, looking for prey. Pigeons, rats, other rodents and birds--the day is clear and sunny, the falcon is almost too obvious a symbol of "freedom" that one had recently and...