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...fear was that no one would know what had happened to them. Evelyn Waugh wrote a hilariously spooky novel-as-parable called "A Handful of Dust," in which an Englishman, his marriage destroyed, joins an archaeological expedition to Brazil; the expedition falls apart, and the Englishman, hopelessly lost in deepest jungle, falls into the hands of an illiterate half-breed whose European father years before had left him a complete set of Dickens. The Englishman - vanished from civilization, lost to friends and family, presumed dead - lives on for years in the impenetrable Brazilian forest, held prisoner so that he might...
...hacked your head off. Today, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is having an even tougher time than Pershing in vanquishing the Moro's pirate descendants: the Islamic militant group known as Abu Sayyaf, which is holding 13 hostages, including three Americans, in the jungles of the country's deepest south...
Rudenstine will be leaving Harvard’s top post after 10 years of service to the University community, which owes him its deepest gratitude for his devotion. Shortcomings aside, Rudenstine has shepherded our academic institution with skill, civility, passion and dedication. For that we thank him and offer him our most sincere best wishes after he leaves Harvard—better than he found...
...charges of killing two students in his Santee, Calif., school in March, gets more letters than he can answer--as many as 40 a week, according to his lawyer. There are five different clubs on Yahoo dedicated to him, as well as a dozen homemade websites. But the real, deepest ties these kids have to their communities are often shredded. Ramsey's family visits only once a year. At one point, they went nine months without even calling...
...Sultan of Pasha without the silks, he collected all his wives there in the desert, and they share a common life. My friend, by contrast, conducted a symmetrical, binary life covertly - keeping the right hand ignorant of the left hand's adventures. I think, paradoxically, that in his deepest heart, my friend did it because he needed confirmation of his intuition of the essential loneliness of the world. Or else, less gloomily, he operated on the principle that since the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, maybe he ought to own territory on both sides...