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...hold the post, arrived at her new quarters to find three battered red ministerial boxes on her desk. Their contents - essential reading to help her master her complex new brief - kept her busy until late in the evening. Then she returned to her London home and went to bed - to be woken a few hours later by the news that there had been an attempted car-bomb attack in the capital. Less than 12 hours after she'd taken office, Britain was facing a full-scale terror crisis, and she was the point person...
...buildings, much less country retreats, had adopted the glass-box look. Johnson's only concession to privacy was a tall brick cylinder set indoors that contained a bathroom. To avoid disturbing the immaculate planes of his design, during the day he didn't even allow a pillow on his bed...
...real” world: the workweek is separate from my weekend to a greater extent than my classes seem separate from my undergraduate life. On the other hand, I've been shocked how exhausting working is—to get up by 7 a.m., I need to get to bed earlier than I usually start studying during the academic year. During the workweek, I’m left with only a few hours each day to myself each evening, after eating dinner, running errands, and responding to e-mail. A friend wisely pointed out to me that only after working...
...picture is somewhat different in the vast space around the city, where insurgents bed down, stash arms and hatch attack plans. There are dozens of tiny villages like Binat al Hasan all around Samarra, some consisting of only three or four houses. Luong says insurgents move from village to village, rarely staying anywhere long for fear of being found by U.S. forces. Luong's troops are now staging two and three air assaults per week in an effort to keep insurgents from settling in the Samarra area as they did in Diyala in the months before the ongoing U.S. drive...
Before my baby came along, my dog was my baby. He arrived in my life the day after my wedding, a gift that my husband and I had no memory of registering for at Bed Bath & Beyond. But an 8-week-old basset hound--all ears and belly and panda paws--is way cuter than a vacuum cleaner. We set his quivering body down on the city sidewalk, and he promptly sucked down a chicken bone. We named him Hoover...