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...palace, and Seraj took particular pride in pointing out the beautiful buildings his ancestors had once inhabited. The inauguration hall was where the king once received supplicants; a crumbling ruin had once housed his great-grandfather's elephants. As he paused to point out the crenellated entrance gate, a bent old man approached - the palace gardener. Clasping his wizened hands around Seraj's, he described how he once had the honor of tying the royal sash around the waist of Seraj's uncle, the then King Amanullah Khan. Seraj beamed, grateful to be recognized as royalty. When Seraj was asked...
...Keep It Real, Karl Karl Lagerfeld's rejection of the "round woman" in Verbatim reflects his strange bent toward ultra-gaunt models [Oct. 26]. But then one look at Lagerfeld is an experience in weirdness. Kudos to the German magazine Brigitte for featuring real women and recognizing female beauty as something other than a skeleton. Louis C. Kleber, Las Vegas
Slowly, as she had practiced so many times before, she bent down on her knees. Her fingers edged up against the white starting line. Then someone yelled...
...businessmen, which perfectly tunes Wallace’s prose to their bitten-off speech patterns. Test Subject #3 (Christopher Meloni) brings a bitterly funny tale to life when he launches into the colorful story of seeing a girl crying on the ground at Dayton airport “bent over so you can, you know, just about see her tits. Totally hysterical and with the waterworks and all like that there...
...this was no easy sell for Obama. The vote came the same week as Democrats lost the Virginia and New Jersey governors' mansions, and a day after the Labor Department reported a 26-year record unemployment rate of 10.2%. Preaching altruism in such a climate to politicians bent on self-preservation is tough. In the end Democrats lost 39 of their own - passing the bill 220-215 with a cushion of just two votes, one of those a Republican in a heavily Democratic Louisiana district. (Read "Understanding the Health Care Debate: Your Indispensable Guide...