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...appeared to have been temporarily deserted by famished troops one evening last week at the time of the iftar. There have been no runs on the banks, no reports of hoarding of food. Iraqis are even relatively calm on the subject of America. Many, of course, are bitter over the 12-year-long U.S.-supported embargo, which Baghdad claims has led to thousands of infants and elderly people dying from preventable diseases. Ammar Shamal, 21, an engineering student, could muster only this lament: "I don't know what America wants from us." Despite a recent rise in Islamic fundamentalism, encouraged...
...Inferno-like imagery he evokes throughout the novel. Frenzy overtakes first the soldiers, "unstoppable like a crazed dragon," and then their victims, consumed by grief, cursing the government even as they fall. It's at Tiananmen that Jin's scrupulous realism, which can prove a drag, pays off with bitter authenticity. His clean and lucid sentences contrast effectively with the insanity of soldiers executing unarmed students in the streets. Jian, an accidental protester, is left as devastated as the rest; he can only repeat numbly to himself, "They killed lots of people, lots...
Coaches on both sidelines were left shaking their heads throughout the game, as the swirling wind and bitter cold made special teams an adventure...
...imagine Steven de Souza or some other Hollywood scribe hearing of "A Number" and drooling over the exploitation possibilities. But Churchill is less interested in the garish colors of melodrama than the shadings of personality. In Salter, the joy of early parenthood turns bitter and abusive when his wife killed herself and he is left with dreams of killing his own son by reproducing him. In the nice Bernard, revelation upends an ordinary life: however hard it is to learn you were adopted, it must be - given the double-time march of science it certainly will be - harder to learn...
...government late into Thursday night. But the government, which must approve any deal, decided the firemen hadn't given enough. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said the agreement would have required "a blank check," which was out of the question. The mood on Collis' picket line was bitter, only broken by noisy cheers as passing motorists responded to a sign saying honk if you support us. The anger was directed at the government: How could Labour - Labour, for Heaven's sake! - refuse to find money for deserving workers when it was prepared to pay out hundreds of millions of taxpayers...