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...novel displays Al Aswany's ability to portray in the most subtle, realistic manner the complex forces that shape such lives. With Chicago, he has produced a highly political diatribe against dictatorship, reflecting the rising calls for democracy in Egypt at the time he was writing it. The climax of the book unfolds with a scheme by Nagi, the medical student, and Salah, the professor, to stage a small protest during an official visit to the U.S. by the unnamed Egyptian President. Having been selected to give a short speech welcoming the President to Chicago, Salah intends to read...
...taint of the Bush years. Democrats Abroad U.K. had booked Porchester Hall, a grand Victorian edifice built for public functions, which ought to have been roomy enough. Pop star Elton John celebrated his birthday there with a few hundred of his closest friends in 1994, and the complex has regularly accommodated large-scale awards ceremonies and posh parties. The Dems had arranged volunteers to man the registration desks, and more to serve refreshments. (Even the press were treated to Hostess cupcakes and Twinkies.) Valda Aviks, a doyenne of musical theater most recently seen as Zandra the Crack Whore...
...intents and purposes, under control with antiretroviral medications (ARVs). It opens up the possibility that at least some people infected with HIV might be able to go without condoms and have unprotected sex. But experts warn that the challenge may only confuse patients about an already complex disease and the safest ways to both treat and contain...
...University and Harvard Medical School. That drove the discussion.” Jeon and Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez both said Wednesday that the University would honor all existing contracts involving HMI, including its agreement regarding the flagship Dubai Healthcare City, a major health-care complex in the Middle East. The partnership with the government of Dubai employs over 400 health-care professionals and is set to undergo further expansion, according to HMI’s 2007 annual report. HMI officials contacted last week expressed enthusiasm for the deal, saying the organization’s health care...
...should add a bit more context here. The speech was given the night before the South Carolina primary. The setting was a historic spot, Penn Center on St. Helena Island, a complex of rude buildings that had served as a center for the civil rights movement, dating back to the Civil War. The crowd, however, was overwhelmingly white - a silent reproach to Clinton by his best-loved constituency, those unutterably decent, hardworking, middle-class, churchified African Americans. They had been shocked and hurt, and then enraged, by his foolish, two-week effort to diss Barack Obama. The next crowd...