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...tour seemed to revive him. Clinton led his troop through the replicas of the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room, and past the row of gift saxophones and life-size models of White House pets, Buddy the dog and Socks the cat. Clinton explained that he had approved every photo and every bit of text, and noted such design details as cherrywood trim and ultraviolet lights. The exhibits stress the history that Clinton likes to remember: meetings with heads of state, standing in elegant company at dinners and other ceremonies. Monica Lewinsky, the intern with whom Clinton dallied, gets only...
...couple of instances, grisly botched amputations. None of that bothers Ella and Franco much. They are like cruel children: dreamy, whimsical, pleasure loving, utterly lacking in remorse or the kind of inward reflection one hopes for from characters in novels. In one scene Franco viciously whips a dog because it resembles a dog that bit him when he was little. "Franco knew perfectly well that this dog was not the same dog that had bitten him, but he did not care. For him, justice was served...
Sydney was just 16 years old when George Caley, accompanied by a small dog and three of "the strongest men in the colony," began walking towards the mountains that squatted on the horizon to the west of the rough and rowdy settlement. No one had been able to reach that dusky blue range, let alone cross it, and the headstrong young botanist was filled with "an enthusiastic pride of going farther than any person has yet been." Though he did just that, and managed to get home again, what Caley and his convict assistants encountered during their three-week expedition...
...segment of it - has all the tools of modern bushwalking. When one of the group injures his leg in a fall, there are mobile phones to summon a car along a fire trail. Caley may have put up with flour, dried beef and the birds the party's dog caught, but these walkers have freeze-dried kangaroo korma and bolognese, fresh snow peas, peanut butter and macadamia nuts. Whenever he gets a chance, Wyn Jones - an expert naturalist and a raconteur known to burst into snatches of song as he ploughs tirelessly through the bush - fires up his coffee maker...
Yale is clearly falling behind. Like a wounded dog pulled behind the ancient Stoics’ proverbial wagon, Yale limps towards the inevitable gnashing its teeth in a desperate and futile attempt to change its fate. But no matter how much Yalies bark and howl about Harvard’s tailgates—which, despite the Boston Police Department’s best efforts, had enough sauce to warm undergraduate revelers all morning and afternoon—or their supposedly superior—read: sweaty and pathetic—social life or their New Haven bunker mentality that they confuse...