Word: elba
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...sixth novel, The Fortune of War) and retold in language nearly understandable to a landsman ("A burton-tackle to the chesstree. Lead aft to a snatch block fast to the aftermost ringbolts and forward free. Look alive there!"). In the new novel Napoleon has just escaped from Elba, and the two heroes must block a huge shipment of Algerian gold intended to pay the Emperor's Muslim mercenaries...
Able Was I, Ere I Saw Elba...
Then there's the site-sponsored contest, "Predict History." Here visitors help make resignation a bit easier by composing the President's farewell speech for him. The winner will earn a trip to the island of Elba, Napoleon's retreat after he called it a day. Another contest involves predicting the date and hour of the President's resignation. The winner earns a trip to wherever the First Family flees after the moment of ultimate disgrace...
Governor Pete Wilson of California and I have something in common. At one time in our lives, we both liked cheap labor. I did 15 years ago when I was looking for a baby-sitter. Mary Poppins was too expensive, so I settled for Elba. All I had to do was paper over immigration questions with work permits and I had someone who looked after my daughter as if she were her own, cooked the meals, washed the windows and swabbed the bathroom -- all for minimum wage...
...times have grown ugly. Blaming illegal immigrants -- indeed, immigrants -- for the tarnish on the Golden State is a centerpiece of the Wilson re- election campaign. He supports the draconian Proposition 187, known as S.O.S. (Save Our State), which would deny Elba a doctor if she got sick and her children their DPT shots and a place in first grade. Teachers and health- care workers would turn into snitches, asked to turn in any child suspected of having parents here illegally. Children would be encouraged to tell on their parents...