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...Basra - however battered the city and its economy, however uncertain its security - where the British-led coalition forces there could contemplate handing over control to the Iraqi army. "What all of this means is not that Basra is how we want it to be but that the next chapter of its history will be written by Iraqis," said Blair...
...classify that encounter says a lot about your politics: one person's loving support is another's emotional pressure. "They talk about the joys of childbirth, which can certainly be a joy," says Melissa Reed, executive director of NARAL's North Carolina chapter, "but they can make a woman feel very intimidated about making any other choice in her life." Wood insists that at her center counselors are trained not to push. "We don't hand out baby booties to everyone with a positive pregnancy test," she says. "We don't do emotional blackmail." And her center at least continues...
...seem to enter the transcendent realm of poetry.Unfortunately, eloquence does not in itself make a book engaging, and Cusk is perhaps a little too aware of her literary prowess. An otherwise minor descriptive line will stretch out into a paragraph, a paragraph into a page, a page into a chapter, and so on, with the end result that “Arlington Park” resembles a hardy green woolen scarf whose orderly knit rows are interrupted by splotches of purple silk—beautiful, but entirely out of place.Cusk’s poignant and intuitive portrayal...
...ridiculous as saying Red Sox designated hitter David Oritz is slender. (In case you fit another gay stereotype, the Red Sox is a baseball team, baseball is a sport, and sport is outdoor athletic activity performed by teams.) I don’t recall a chapter in “Manliness,” last year’s sensation from Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, entitled, “Power Tools, Poison, and the Scars They Leave Behind...
...final weekend of regular season play in a Harvard uniform. “There’s a lot of emotions attached to it,” Chu said, “primarily because I’ve had such an incredible experience here at Harvard. Any time a chapter like that closes in your life, there’s going to be a lot of emotions.” “It’s very exciting but sad at the same time,” Sifers added. “Hopefully it won?...