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...flatly, "He's frustrated. I know he's not happy." A close associate at State says, "Sure, there's frustration--especially when you didn't have to do this and you're working your buns off at it." It has got bad enough for his intimate aides to wonder aloud whether Powell will serve out his full term. "You gotta wonder," says one, "whether you're still having...
...purple T shirt and blue shorts to hitch a ride with his wife Iot in a pickup truck to get some medical help. Usually voluble, Along falls silent, his face clenched in anxiety as they approach town. Now and then he inquires aloud whether there is any cash to pay for the hotel and the doctor. Along has no money; he never does. That's the way of the Penan...
...Noted "That's your problem." SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, ex-President of Yugoslavia, when asked by the Hague war crimes tribunal if he wanted all 51 pages of indictments read aloud at his arraignment hearing...
...foreman surnamed Lai. Today, Lai is responsible for watching the several practitioners who remain on the job. If any of them protest, he says, "I lose my bonus, face demotion and could even be fired." To ensure compliance, Lai holds weekly meetings at which practitioners read aloud propaganda screeds from the People's Daily. The foreman doesn't like it, but his own security is more important than his workers' faith. "I don't care what you believe," he says, "but if you cost me my job, I can't let you do that...
...hands of an illiterate half-breed whose European father years before had left him a complete set of Dickens. The Englishman - vanished from civilization, lost to friends and family, presumed dead - lives on for years in the impenetrable Brazilian forest, held prisoner so that he might read Dickens aloud every afternoon to the brute with a taste for literature...