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...people who lived on these lands were measured too. Would the Indians help or hinder the march of progress? That was always the first question in the captains' minds as they rounded a bend in the river and saw smoke, or glimpsed a horseman watching from a bluff. The noble cross-cultural moments came later. Before Clark helped a teenage Sacagawea give birth inside a wintry fort, and before she repaid him a thousand times over by arranging with her Shoshone kinsmen for the expedition's passage over the Rockies, Lewis drew his sword against the Teton Sioux as they...
...after winning the F.A. Cup, clinched the title by beating Ferguson's stellar team on their own turf at Old Trafford. The winning smile of Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger was that of a man who knew he'd outfought, outthought and outstared soccer's meanest, smartest double-bluff artist. Until now Ferguson has pretty much held the franchise on his own life story in eight autobiographies, and he's not inclined to start cooperating with snooping authors - not even one like Michael Crick, who has been a fanatical supporter of "the Reds" for 30 years. But in Crick...
...Perchov, the novel's other, more successfully realized narrator, tells a very different tale. He acts as a translator when Foer takes a trip to Ukraine. Bluff, gruff and unflappable, he writes in broken English: "I dig Negroes, particularly Michael Jackson. I dig to disseminate very much currency at famous nightclubs in Odessa." (His English gets better?and less hilarious?as the book goes on.) Accompanied by Perchov's narcoleptic grandfather and a flatulent dog named Sammy Davis Jr., Foer and Perchov set off into the Ukrainian countryside to search for what's left of present-day Trachimbrod...
Perchov, the novel's other, more successfully realized narrator, tells a very different tale. He acts as a translator when Foer takes a trip to Ukraine. Bluff, gruff and unflappable, he writes in broken English: "I dig Negroes, particularly Michael Jackson. I dig to disseminate very much currency at famous nightclubs in Odessa." (His English gets better--and less hilarious--as the book goes on.) Accompanied by Perchov's narcoleptic grandfather and a flatulent dog named Sammy Davis Jr., Foer and Perchov set off into the Ukrainian countryside to search for what's left of present-day Trachimbrod...
...Turkey to supply rebels in Chechnya. "They have the best terrorist shipping network in the world," says Gunaratna. But while the U.S. is trying to portray itself as "bad cop" and "a menacing hard-ass," according to one Western diplomat in Colombo, Prabhakaran last week publicly called their bluff. "We do not think America would intervene," he said dismissively. "We are not Muslims...