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...center is a crush of activity. U.S. Soldiers and Iraqi police call the men forward one by one, and pat them down for weapons before letting them inside. It is a scene replicated thousands of times a day all over the country. Except for one difference: here, the security detail includes a team of eight Iraqi women checking all of the females attempting to enter as well...
...tracings on top of that, and on top of that, until I had what I felt was a good-looking character. It's really just sketching and re-sketching, and paying attention to the words and descriptions. Harry Potter fans are so in tune. They pay attention to every detail, and if you mess up, you'll know about it the next...
Your report on the Berkshire hathaway shareholders meeting painted a vivid picture of the scene but omitted a vital detail [May 26]. Yes, Benjamin Moore was selling teddy bears for $5, an item ordinarily promotional. But all proceeds from the toy and other items we sold went to Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC). In fact, we raised $10,000 at the Omaha meeting and have added that to our considerable ongoing annual support of RMHC. Denis Abrams, PRESIDENT & CEO Benjamin Moore & Co., MONTVALE...
Faulks is a graceful writer with a bracing cold streak and a sharp eye for period detail (Bond's girl of the moment drives a white Sunbeam Alpine). But by now, Bond is so bound by convention--there must be exotic settings (Paris, Persia, Russia) and vehicles (the unstoppable Ekranoplan!), and the villain has to have an exotic handicap (a weird, deformed monkey hand)--that it's all poor James can do to wriggle convincingly under all that baggage. And escape, my dear 007, is quite impossible...
...documents, which were reviewed by a pool reporter from the Washington Post, spelled out the details of this prognosis in excruciating detail. They described ear wax removal, a fungal infection on his toe, and his occasional experience of blood in his urine, which was treated as an enlarged prostate and stones in his bladder. They noted that McCain reports sleeping five to six hours a night, drinks two alcoholic beverages a month, and occasionally experiences vertigo when he stands, a common condition his doctors said did not put him at increased risk for stroke. A doctor's visit in March...