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...take me to the Hague, and I'd welcome it!" In the musty office of the Association of Gusle Players and Epic Poets in a downtown hotel, Mitar Djogo is similarly defiant. After playing a few notes on the gusle, a primitive, one-stringed instrument that produces a noise akin to the bleating of sheep, Djogo says, "All Herzegovina will rise to defend...
...couple of weekends ago when hordes of people descended upon the city for the Fourth of July festivities. Washington, D.C., is a city of contradictions, and its citizens are no different. While celebrating the democratic ideals of liberty and justice for all, the celebration itself was much more akin to a Darwinian struggle for the basic necessities of life...
Last week her firm announced its intention to become a powerful business force as well. Under the careful eyes of Prada's husband Patrizio Bertelli, its managing director, the firm grabbed 5% of rival fashion house Gucci for a little more than $120 million. The acquisition, akin to Hyundai's biting off a tasty chunk of Honda, had many manicured hands scratching coiffed heads--including some at Gucci's Florentine headquarters, which released a terse statement: "No agreement has been entered into with the Prada group, and no discussions are contemplated. Gucci did not solicit this investment...
...then" one is never certain of what will happen next. While the history books tell linear stories, the reality of time is more akin to the Choose Your Own Adventure series in which the author never knows where his or her narrative venture is leading. The author-actor is him- or herself similarly limited by time and place. In The 18th Brumaire, Marx teaches, "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past...
...life drugs are gene-based just like those for serious medical conditions. In areas like impotence, aging skin, baldness and obesity, the science is just as profound as if you were working in cancer, asthma or anti-infectives." In other words, Viagra is sober stuff and not at all akin to Sy Sperling's Hair Club...