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...produced on the order of 50 books, working every morning, never deviating from a disciplined routine. "A writer must sit down to write every day, pick up his pen and try to write something - anything - on a piece of paper," he once said. (According to legend, when the Swedish ambassador paid him a call to inform him that he'd been awarded the Nobel, Mahfouz's wife refused to disturb him: he was taking his regular...
...tends to believe that Iran is still years away from developing a nuclear weapon, were not taking the threat seriously enough. (The fact that one of the report's authors was Frederick Fleitz, an ex-CIA officer who had worked for a leading Bush Administration hawk, now-U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, also raised some eyebrows - though committee spokesman Jamal Ware said the report was bipartisan and was begun before Fleitz joined the staff...
...Those are the people who have been overcharging us--selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables ... First it was Jews, then it was Koreans, and now it's Arabs. " ANDREW YOUNG, civil rights leader, ex--U.N. ambassador and Wal-Mart lobbyist, on why the retail titan is right to displace urban mom-and-pop shops. He later apologized and resigned his Wal-Mart post...
...start of this year, they were dismissing an all-out battle between sects as impossible. In March they were saying it was improbable. Now they cautiously suggest it is not inevitable. And that's the optimistic perspective. A more despairing assessment was on display last week in departing British Ambassador William Patey's final diplomatic memo to London. "The prospect of a low intensity civil war and a de facto division of Iraq is probably more likely at this stage than a successful and substantial transition to a stable democracy," Patey wrote in his message, which was leaked...
...ministers were the last bricks on the façade that is the all-party national-unity government of Prime Minister al-Maliki. Earlier in the year I had watched from close quarters as U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad worked tirelessly to make that government possible, pleading, cajoling until all the political factions--Shi'ite, Sunni, Kurdish and secular--agreed to get in the big tent together. Relieved, the Bush Administration announced that the participation of all groups, especially the recalcitrant Sunnis, would allow al-Maliki's government to succeed where the U.S. military had failed, in bringing to heel both...