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...Southern drawl and conservative voting record are likely to play well in South Carolina. If Thompson can keep enthusiasm high until he enters the race in the fall, he might be able to turn what was supposed to be a marathon race for the nomination into a relatively brief, four-month sprint. And while Thompson may not, in the end, be all things to all Republicans, at 6 ft. 5 in. and at least 225 lbs., he definitely is no pygmy...
...that country's civil war. More recently, Ivory Coast's heroic exploits at the World Cup and African Cup of Nations have helped promote the peace process that has brought that country's civil war to a close. Then again, soccer has also been known to reinforce conflicts - a brief war between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 was triggered by events at a soccer match between the two countries, while Croatian nationalists still mark the start of their war with Serbia not from the day the first shots were fired, but from a violent confrontation...
Afterward, several people remarked unprompted that they were moved by Eck's brief speech...
...just that it's different now. Unlike every other book in the series, Deathly Hallows isn't governed by the stately rhythms and rituals of the school year. It's structured and paced like a war novel: Rowling marches us through a series of military sallies and counter-sallies, brief respites and sudden departures and long-range patrols. At times in the book Harry will whip out the Marauder's Map and look longingly at the little labeled dots as they move around Hogwarts. We know how he feels. Normality has been lost - Deathly Hallows is as much about what...
...government but that I had to come 5,500 miles to learn about it. Perhaps Argentina’s young radicals aren’t so far off the mark, then, with their accusations of selective history. Twentieth century U.S. history classes that fail to even mention this brief, but real, violent insurgency do their students a disservice by painting the story of resistance in artificial hues of patience and temperance. If we are to understand the U.S. in the 1960s and ‘70s, we must not teach Martin Luther King, Jr. without mention of the Black Panthers...