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...drooping over his strangely sparkling eyes. He had even started writing poetry again. “To tell about those woods is hard, so tangled and rough,” one of them started. It was intolerable.She saw Frederick there through the library window, urging his horse and a dozen hounds off into the forest. As his figure disappeared into the foliage, she rose and moved like a trapped starling to the door. Her novel, “The Accommodating Footman,” was left abandoned on the floor. Felicity would go to the stables and become undisguised...
...that had become such an important part of his life. “I guess you could say I wasn’t ready to leave when I took off for school.” But the success of 826 Valencia had led the organization to plan a half-dozen new writing centers across the United States, and Feeney saw an opportunity to stay involved in the program by opening up a local chapter. After talking to Eggers, Feeney spent almost a year drafting the local chapter application. He received approval from 826 National, and 826 Boston was born...
Prosecutors have described legal proceedings at Guantanamo as a contemporary version of Nuremberg, the post-World War Two tribunals that decided the fate of the major surviving Nazi war criminals. But for many critics the proceedings promise further bad publicity for the U.S. on a global scale. A dozen suspected al-Qaeda prisoners are in custody in Gitmo, among a prison population that currently numbers 280. The pace of legal motions is expected to increase in coming weeks, as trials loom for six "high-value" prisoners, including Khaled Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. In February...
...senior ministers appealing for calm on radio and television. Will angry Chinese calm down simply because their leaders tell them to? So far, Beijing has been spared the most visible displays of rage seen in secondary cities like Wuhan and Qingdao. But on April 19, a convoy of a dozen cars bearing banners condemning France and opposing Tibetan independence slowly cruised by the French school in Beijing, where students were inside taking exams. My children are at a different school, but the display still gave me the chills. With China's nationalist tiger untethered, a foreign journalist may have more...
...Major Leagues. And even with that, Ortiz - whose big smile and clutch hitting over the past five years have made him arguably the most popular player in all of baseball - has hit just two home runs in 79 at bats and is batting a meager .177. Fewer than a dozen AL starters have worse numbers...