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...initiative designed to map out and secure the two-state separation backed by a hands-on peacekeeping commitment may be far deeper involvement than the Bush administration had ever countenanced. But the alternative may be to watch U.S. policy in the Middle East policy be slowly burned to a crisp, much to the delight of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden...
...Christianity and nine months later it had proven itself to be just that. Though academia may demand skepticism, we are misguided when we impose our principles on other disciplines and suggest that those who believe in anything with the rigid confidence of a tightly folded flag or a crisp salute just have not thought about it hard enough...
...should, that the fashion designer has had to work extra hard to make her look decent in the light of day. Sure, wear a bright red skirt, but pair it with a slimming shirt that takes eyes away from that unsightly thing called a stomach. Thinking of wearing a crisp white tank top? Why don’t you put an oxford shirt over it—wouldn’t want to show off those jello-jiggley arms...
...exactly two weeks left, I suppose I should get ready for the last and most dreadful stage of this strange condition—the complete breakdown in personal maintenance. It’ll start, I guess, with my not having time for the frilly stuff like make-up and crisp new outfits that anyone could do without anyway. Next we switch to low maintenance outfits only: jeans and big sweaters first, then sweats and house slippers. And then the hair will look a little rattier and the sweats a little more worn in. I’ll report back...
...Full of crisp, witty, His Girl Friday exchanges, we follow greenhorn gumshoe Richard Field, newly arrived in Shanghai from Yorkshire. His first assignment takes him to the scene of the above described sadistic murder of Lena Orlov, a down-and-out Russian princess who?like so many others in the city?had resorted to selling her only remaining commodity: herself. Field must find out why the fattest cats in town care about the brutal stabbing of this high-class whore...