Word: deserters
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...tragic book. Characters who are very intelligent and have high ideals and are good-looking and seem to have everything going right still make terrible, fatally wrong choices and end up damaged. It’s a very sad book. THC: If you were both stranded on a desert island and could only take one book with you, which would it be and why?DD: I would say ‘Proust’. You could spend your life reading ‘Proust’.LD: I would say the same thing, and it counts as more than one.DD...
...time of the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, Mexico's political system had ossified into an elective dictatorship, in which power was held by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for a staggering half-century. The economy has always had real challenges, like a difficult geography, with lots of desert and few navigable rivers. The long impoverishment of the Indian population blighted the whole nation's economic prospects. Despite all this, Mexico's economy has always had vast potential, but during the PRI ascendancy, the nation was closed off from world trade, in thrall to discredited theories of import substitution...
...going to blade off hundreds of thousands of acres of earth to preserve the earth?' DAVID MYERS, head of the Wildlands Conservancy, criticizing a proposal to build massive wind, solar and geothermal plants in the Mojave Desert...
...think I partly want to do that, but I don't want to just desert this place and go. It won't be fair on my musicality. I will probably balance out both...
...pulled in the mobs - nor the mass audience's need to go out with their friends and see the nominally new version of a picture they liked a few years back on the big screen. This fact alone should hearten industry people fretful that their target demographic will soon desert the big screen for smaller ones, with their new-millennial lure of downloads and DVDs. F&F proves there's no significant change in the basic impulse of young moviegoers: escape from Planet Home...