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...waiting for them, with a Chinese driver. The snakeheads' far-flung networks had delivered. The driver drove them through the night to a large city, which Chen discovered was Houston, though he had only the vaguest idea of U.S. geography. All he had was the telephone number of a distant cousin in someplace called Flushing...
...celebrity culture, has measured as little as 5 in. (13 cm) of rainfall in a year. And despite occasional monsoons, Southern California is so chronically arid that it couldn't sustain a third of its current population without sucking billions of liters a day out of Lake Mead, the distant Colorado River reservoir formed by Hoover...
...that the North is finally willing to engage its Southern counterpart in a serious and constructive dialogue that may open the door to reconciliation and wide-ranging exchange. At the least, the dialogue will promote peaceful coexistence. It may even provide the first real stepping stone toward a more distant and challenging prospect of peaceful reunification...
...negotiations begin. It is called an inkwano--the price a prospective bridegroom must pay the bride's family. Since this was a refugee camp, though, and personal survival, never mind personal wealth, was hard to come by, the bridal price was below market: one cow, payable in some distant future when Rwandan Hutu would have cows and land to graze them on. A Catholic priest presided over the ceremony, attended by the other refugees from Havamungo's Rwankogoto village and sealed in the eyes of the community by the Bourgemeister, who wished them bountiful loins and strong children...
...specialist in the study of 19th and 20th-century Russian poetry, Sandler published her first book, Distant Pleasures: Alexander Pushkin and the Writing of Exile...