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...with that policeman's wife that Cal becomes compellingly infatuated. He glimpses her through library bookshelves, follows her after her work, and even finds employment at the farm where she lives and where her husband was killed. A curious blend of infatuation and guilt draws this youth from trembling, zombied isolation in his father's house to vigorous, healthy work. Hiding from the I.R.A. and the police in a hut near the farmhouse, Cal finds solace in the company of the similarly isolated Marcella. The ensuing relationship is the more remarkable for its seeming impossibility; a fragile, temporary salvage from...
...part of the exclusionary system is as entrenched as ever. In 1959 the late Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd introduced his plan to create ten Bantustans, or homelands, in which all of South Africa's blacks would become "citizens," regardless of whether they lived there or not. Through this curious legerdemain, Verwoerd saw a way to turn South Africa into a predominantly white country, at least on paper. Millions of blacks would continue to live and work in the vicinity of the big cities, because the South African economy needed them. But in theory they would be voting citizens...
...Federal Election Commission notified her of the violation; to repay the loan, Ferraro arranged through her husband to sell her share of a Manhattan building. The property was bought by a middleman, then repurchased by Zaccaro?a curious transaction resulting from Zaccaro's apparent ignorance of campaign finance laws. Then the couple miscalculated their profit on the deal and ended by owing the IRS $29,709 in back taxes plus interest of $23,750 (see following story...
...also curious that Schell's proposal never departs from the commonly accepted deference theory that has ruled the Nuclear Age. Curious, because Schell uses the first half of the book to convincingly argue that deference theory is a contradictory, dangerous, inhuman, and without credibility. He asks us if we would date sacrifice the world to uphold our sovereignty, confident that the only sane and rational answer...
...worst thing that ever happened to me," and that she felt "violated" by Penthouse, the photographer and the pageant too, because it told the press rather than her directly that it wanted her resignation. She claimed that she consented to have the pictures taken because she was "curious" and that she never agreed to let the shots be published. All this brings a derisive snort from Guccione, who says he has a model release form signed by Williams and authenticated by two handwriting experts. He has declined so far to produce the form or to say what date...