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...Human rights are the most important subject of this century and the 21st century," said Cyrus Bina, an economist and affiliate in research at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies who signed all of the petitions. "This is the first step to be taken by human societies to live together in this shrinking world...
...family in the kind of small town that Bill Clinton pretends to come from. The Man from Hope actually grew up in Hot Springs, a resort town of healing waters and racetracks and churches built on gambling money. Both had powerhouse working mothers--Virginia Kelley was a nurse anesthetist; Bina Dole sold sewing machines door to door--though Virginia had far less luck or judgment than Bina in choosing men. Mrs. Dole would not have married a man without knowing that he'd been married three times before. Once widowed, Clinton's mother married again, to a philandering, cologne-wearing...
...might become a doctor himself, for the security. But that turned out to be a hard promise to keep. The wound he suffered in Italy three weeks before the end of the war left him immobilized below the neck. When they eventually shipped him home to die, Cramer writes, "Bina had to pick eight cigarette butts out of his plaster cast. She told her sisters: they'd used her boy for an ashtray on the train...
Valmont encounters and subdues several women, from the naive Cecile Volanges (Bina Martin) to the promiscuous courtesan, Emilie (Danielle Kwatinetz). His primary goal, though, is to make the pious and virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Jeanne Simpson) "betray everything she believes in." And achieve this goal he does, but he falls in love with Tourvel along the way. The forbidden "Lword," which he once shared with the Marquise, has become so alien to him that when he does feel it once again, he shuns it. He is so afraid of exposing his Achilles heel--his real personality--that he alienates...
...Although Bina said to me, when we were doing character work, I had told her "yes I do know what your character [has] eaten for breakfast", and we were walking down the street, and Bina said to me, "so what did she eat for breakfast?" And I told her. We did cut out a lot though about her character background, I don't know if you noticed...