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...prevent decisive action against the Iraqi regime. The French and the Russians, stained by Iraqi oil, have taken the bait and declared that a new resolution against Saddam is unnecessary. Germany will follow. Tony Blair has so far been stalwart, but there is no predicting how far he will bend to accommodate certain leftist members of his party...
...source of the burning smell. She discovered Reid, seated alone by a window, trying to light a match. She sternly warned him that smoking was not allowed. He promised to stop, then began picking his teeth with the blackened matchstick. A few minutes later, she saw him bend over in his seat. "I thought, He's smoking," Moutardier recalls. "It got me mad. I was talking to him, saying, 'Excuse me,' but he just ignored me. I leaned in and said, 'What are you doing?'" As she pulled at him, he turned, giving her a glimpse of what...
...frightening piece, "Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad," he turned into his novel Guerrillas. In "A New King for Congo," his meditation on the late Zairean kleptocrat, President Mobutu, he alludes to Heart of Darkness, comparing Conrad's Kurtz to Mobutu: "Seventy years later, at this bend in the river, something like Conrad's fantasy came to pass. But the man was black, and not white; and he had been maddened not by contact with wilderness and primitivism, but with civilization." This is Naipaul's first use of the phrase "bend in the river," which became...
...years of fighting have warped both sides, exacting tolls that go beyond the monstrous body count of 607 Israelis and 1,702 Palestinians dead. For the Palestinians, even before Oslo, there was at least the faith that if they stayed true to their cause, if they refused to bend to Israel's dictate, they would one day have the elemental right to rule themselves. If they did not know precisely how they would be delivered, they at least knew by whom: Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. Although they were trampled as a people, the Palestinians continued to function...
...physical fitness program at the Furongfang Women's Health Club in booming Guangzhou, and she isn't quitting. "There's a lot of pressure for young women to keep a stable job and find a good husband," says Renrui as she grimaces with the exertion of another deep knee- bend. "Exercise lets me relieve the stress I get from society and work." No pain, no gain. But in this instance, pain is pricey. The regimen in which Renrui is enrolled costs nearly $700, squats included...