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...year-old Miriam alone in Nazi-occupied Budapest while her husband fights in the Hungarian army. The book opens with the urbane and middle class Esther sharing coffee with her best friend, discussing how the Nazi death trap was closing in. "I received an order to hand over the dog today," she says, as Miriam feeds ice cream to little Rexy. First denied their pets, the Jews of Budapest are soon commanded to leave behind all their possessions and report to the ghetto. Hearing rumors of round-ups from which no one returns, Esther buys fake papers that identify...
...Yugoslavia, followed by Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo. And now Montenegro, a staunch Serbian ally for the past two centuries, has made its exit. All that is left of Yugoslavia (which changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro three years ago) is a World Cup?bound soccer team and dog-eared passports like mine. But these days I can't even travel to Romania without a lengthy wait for a visa. These were some of the thoughts going through my head as I watched happy Montenegrins celebrating through the night, but my mood was not entirely bleak. After all, this...
...soon. Meanwhile, he's enjoying his red-carpet moment, even as he pleads that he's a little bewildered by it all. The experience, he says, reminds him of a New Yorker cartoon that used to hang on the wall of his Senate office. It showed a funny-looking dog riding a tricycle onstage in an opera house, to rapturous applause from a fancy audience. Gore can relate to what the caption says the dog is thinking: "I don't know why they like this, but I'm going to keep on pedaling...
...warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron chairs and talking about 'dog eat dog' and 'killing the competition.' Only he's for real. He's actually killed people." Semko's swagger leads Steadman into an increasingly unethical and dangerous ascent on the corporate ladder. It's a deal with the devil, as Steadman learns...
...blogging event in Vancouver last year. And not necessarily by choice. "[Bloggers] who are in the long tail would probably rather not be part of it," he said. "They simply want to be read." As an earlier catchphrase put it, if the tail were smarter, it would wag the dog...