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...straightforward version of the same tale. Though Judah, a veteran foreign correspondent who knows Africa well, offers us plenty of solid reporting, his account struggles to overcome the dearth of rich source material even as it gets bogged down in some of the details the author has managed to dig up. At its best - in Judah's description of the Rome race, and in providing context that explains the wider importance of Bikila's victory - the book is a valuable addition to the history of running and Africa. But if you're comfortable with a biographer cutting some corners...
...major securities firm in Manhattan circulated memos to employees reminding them of their ethical and legal responsibilities. One Wall Street mutual-fund manager confided that he is afraid even to telephone heads of companies whose stock his fund owns to discuss their firms' performance. As the press continued to dig for revelations, Director Sorkin said sourly, ''This has become a circus.'' True enough, but the show appeared to be far from over...
...limits, but not much else is. Unlike most boards, 4chan doesn't require posters to register, which means they can post anonymously, which leads to a lot of uninhibited behavior. If you're looking for obscenity, blasphemy, homophobia, misogyny and racial insults, you don't have to dig too deep. Shortly after midnight on Sept. 11, 2007, a teenager in Pflugerville, Texas, posted a photo of some pipe bombs and announced that he was going to shoot up his school in the morning. A reader in Arizona called the Pflugerville police, who arrested the teenager. (So that's another thing...
...opposition politicians and their defenseless supporters and cause several million to flee to neighboring countries. It would also exacerbate the suspicions between countries in the north and those in the south, making it even more likely that developing countries (which account for the majority of U.N. member states) will dig in their heels in support of human rights abusers in Zimbabwe and beyond...
Wayne claims his rhymes are stream of consciousness, but even if they aren't, they sound as though they're hitting the air for the first time, unfolding with an electricity that's--forbid the sacrilege--Dylanesque. Redd Foxx would probably dig...