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...responsibility to get the funding they need to produce adequate meals for us,” griped one Matherite. Maybe we’re exaggerating a little. Ignoring that particular lunch’s carb-heavy options, it was possible to make a nutritious and—dare I say it?—tasty lunch out of soup and a spinach salad topped with garlic kale and Tuscan chickpeas. Sounds almost gourmet. But our rumblings, exaggerated though they may be, stem from a legitimate source. Something is going on under the mountain of starch...
Given the unprecedented military and media operation needed to create this simulacrum of normality, the prince's assessment was just about right. The Windsors don't do normal. Their function is symbolic; the most popular and effective member of the family, the Queen, is remote, dare one say regal, despite her relentless diary of public engagements. It was Harry's mother Diana, a royal-by-marriage, who engaged with ordinary people in emotionally intelligent ways and encouraged her sons to strive for a kind of über-normality. Yet as she discovered, it's hard to keep it real...
...recognized that flashing is difficult to stop. Indecent exposure, said Pasquarello, is not common in Cambridge. But according to Catalano, HUPD deals with a few exposure incidents each year. “Sometimes we don’t know if someone does it because of alcohol, because of a dare, or because of some kind of perverted reason,” Pasquarello said. The offender, if caught, can face a charge for open and gross lewdness depending upon the severity of exposure, said Pasquarello. Jail time is also a possibility, and the offender’s criminal record...
...into despair as the economy withered and the state's assets were handed out to corrupt insiders. Under Putin, attitudes have flipped. Now it's the intellectuals who are disgusted with his administration's habitual disregard for democracy, its tendency to harass opposition figures and intimidate media outlets that dare to criticize the state. Average Russians, on the other hand, seem mostly to accept Putin's grand bargain: I'll improve your standard of living if you keep your mouth shut. It's similar to the deal that Deng Xiaoping and his successors have offered the Chinese: there will...
...used. When Rachael confronts him about sleeping with schoolgirls, the Ruler locks her away in a house. Futilely attempting to control every aspect of her environment and believing himself powerful enough to even stop time itself, the Ruler freezes every clock in the house at the minute she dared broach the subject to him. But like all subjects under totalitarian regimes, she remains sovereign over her own spirit, and her refusal to repent is a silent but powerful protest. To the Ruler, “her tears had become the battleground of their wills.” With passages such...