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...winter came in earnest. A penetrating north wind swept the city with icy blasts. The window and door of my unheated cell rattled with each gust. I had on both my sweaters and a padded jacket, but still spasms of shivering shook my body. In the icy room, my breath made white, cloudy puffs, and I had to stamp my feet and rub my hands to bring blood to my toes and fingers. Something mysterious was happening outside. As winter turned to spring, I learned that Shanghai was in a constant state of upheaval. One day the newspaper...
...what can Rice do? If she hopes to be remembered in the same breath as the Secretaries of State she most admires--George Marshall, Dean Acheson, George Shultz--Rice will have to shed her famous equipoise, risk failure in the Middle East and begin to deal with the world as it is, rather than how the Administration wishes it to be. Restoring U.S. prestige will involve the kind of trade-offs between interests and ideals that she and Bush have so far been reluctant to make--but that are the stock-in-trade of successful U.S. diplomacy. Given the limited...
...right now, and obviously Bode is extremely important to this team, but we’re going to stay positive.”The Crimson, already struggling with an unstable starting lineup, cannot afford to lose its heavyweight standout for any length of time and now holds its collective breath with the MRI results pending.“It seems that every weekend we have some key guys missing,” Preston said. “This weekend we didn’t have [sophomore] Andrew Flanagan, and of course we lost Bode.” Despite its injury...
...some hope that the standoff can be resolved. A new electoral commission and voter roll should placate the Awami League and, so long as the BNP does not in turn boycott a fresh ballot, fair elections are a real possibility. But Bangladesh's citizens aren't holding their breath. People "are hostage to the power struggle and who will be sharing the booty," says editor Chowdhury. "Politics has been polluted." A group of students from a private university in a Dhaka suburb concurs. Tauhid Jalil, 21, who is in his fourth year of a degree in finance and economics...
...poem from which the novel takes its name ("? as when the young bird-catcher/ Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's daughter,/ So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly"), Hall's dark vision is lit by a transforming lyricism, with bravura passages that can take the breath away. This is Australian writing worth caring about...