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Opening the story proper, our historian sets the scene in Amsterdam, 1972. Sheltered, studious, and alienated from the “tough-talking, chain-smoking sophisticates” in the brat cohort of diplomats?? children, the protagonist spends long hours with the 19th century tomes in her father’s library during his frequent absences. She becomes captivated by a “much older volume” that breaks the collection’s uniformity: an enigmatic medieval text marked by a woodcut of a dragon and concealing a collection of yellowing letters...
...perusal. It’s clear Jones prefers basketball to football. “Ballin!” goes the hook, and Jones does exhibit a nice stroke. He remixed the song for the Giants, but it’s the Denver Nuggets that his team—the Diplomats??most resembles. Seriously. First, there’s Diplomats patriarch Cam’ron, who was actually a standout on his high school basketball squad. He’s ’Melo—underappreciated, and a natural leader. Then there’s Juelz Santana...
Nader Hasan’s April 11 tour de force on “The Sacred Duty of Peacekeeping,” makes the impassioned case. Fear not, seasoned realpolitikers and sober diplomats??our munchkins will be trained in what Hasan calls the venerable “arts of humanitarian relief and peacebuilding.” They will take their cues from military dynamos such as Canada, further along than we no doubt on the celestial arch of Progress, and they will dutifully sit in on seminars about the food and drink of the society-to-be-saved...
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