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...continues in Cairo about why the government is dragging out a case that has so damaged the country's reputation. Some speculate that Mubarak was goaded by an article Ibrahim wrote shortly after Bashar Assad succeeded his late father as President of Syria, lampooning Egypt's government as a beast halfway between a monarchy and a republic - the implication was that Mubarak had similar dynastic designs. The episode may have provided an excuse for going after Ibrahim, but most observers agree that the government persevered because of Ibrahim's work at the Ibn Khaldun Center - a think tank dedicated...
...Part of the problem is due to the nature of the beast. Sturgeon are ancient creatures that have swum the world's rivers and seas for millions of years. Clad in bony plates, they are fierce-looking fish that can grow to enormous lengths?measuring up to six meters from snout to tail and weighing more than a ton. But they mature slowly: some don't begin reproducing until they are 15 to 25 years old. When a female sturgeon does start ovulating, she can be quite valuable, producing more than a million eggs, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...last line of the show, ‘Don’t deny your beast inside,’ in addition to being a supremely ungrammatical phrase, has served as our theme,” O’Keefe says. “All the characters have some deep inner drive, pain or hunger, lust…Those characters that could recognize their inner drive, that could accept it, succeed, and everyone else who denies it dies, or something like that...
...begin with, after Sept. 11, the passage of time drew off the worst of the pain, but every month or so there came a new disturbance--an orange alert, a dance-club bombing in Bali, a surface-to-air missile fired at a passenger jet--that showed us the beast still at our door. In the confrontation with Iraq, in the contested effort to build a homeland defense, we all struggled to regain something like the more secure world we thought we lived in before the towers fell. But every step of the way we wondered--was this...
Part of the problem is due to the nature of the beast. Sturgeon are ancient creatures that have swum the world's rivers and seas for millions of years. Clad in bony plates, they are fierce-looking fish that can grow to enormous lengths--measuring up to 20 ft. from snout to tail and weighing more than 2,500 lbs. But they mature slowly: some don't begin reproducing until they are 15 to 25 years old. When a female sturgeon does start ovulating, she can be quite valuable, producing over a million eggs worth hundreds of thousands of dollars...