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...conceit, the wishful thinking of someone who has chosen to write in a world that no longer seems to require his labor? With enormous skill and formal grace, Vargas Llosa weaves this question through the mystery surrounding the fate of Saul Zuratas, the former comrade who may have gone backward in time, toward prehistory, to achieve an authority and integrity lost to contemporary writers. Unfortunately, the narrator cannot imagine how Saul could have adapted to such a role: "The rest of the story, however, confronts me only with darkness, and the harder I try to see through it, the more...
...before I left for Harvard, I put together a make-shift campaign headquarters on a shoestring budget with no telephones. It represented one of the only contributions the Democratic organization would let me make to a backward, lethargic campaign. Democrats had gotten so comfortable with idea of doing nothing and losing comfortably that they were completely surprised by the idea of an active (maybe even winning) campaign...
...mission -- to transform Uganda from a backward country to an advanced country. The economy is the base of stability. It affects your social programs, your political stability, everything...
...four AA batteries, the microchip Bible is more portable than most published editions. By punching in book, chapter and verse, the user can immediately call up any of the 31,173 verses of Scripture on the screen's four display lines. From there the text can be read continuously, backward or forward...
...Maybe if he does intend to do that, he was too ashamed to bring it up with the other heads of state in attendance," Baker said. "But certainly it would be a step backward in the peace process...