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...current laureate, Charles Simic, says he was often too busy to talk to his cat. He kept expecting the rush to die down, but it never did. "It's endless interviews," he says. "The position is so well known that sooner or later every newspaper and magazine in the country gets in touch with...
...face, it would belong to left fielder Pete Incaviglia, who thunders toward a pop fly and doesn't catch it so much as consume it. If ugly had an attitude, it would belong to center fielder and team firebrand Lenny (''Nails'') Dykstra, the Dead End Kid with an endless muddy stream of epithets and tobacco juice. If it had a clotheshorse, it would be John Kruk, the Shmoo-shaped first baseman who tore his pants lunging for a ball early in the final game and, either defiantly or absentmindedly, left his underwear on display for the next seven innings...
...www.iamm.org.my. The show examines Islamic art's impact on Western artists, highlighting how Islamic calligraphy, tile designs, and geometrical motifs pop up in the most unlikely places, from Tiffany lamps - some of which drew on 16th century Persian works - to the art of M.C. Escher, whose elaborate drawings of endless staircases and interlocking patterns were apparently inspired by Islamic designs...
...imperfections. I did so first by eschewing sleep mode in favor of switching it off because booting the device only takes a few seconds anyway. Then I turned off the wireless connection, powering up the free high-speed service only when book-buying. Those two changes gave me nearly endless battery life. I also developed a technique--holding the device gingerly by its edges--to outwit the awkward control buttons. I even came to accept the black text on a gray background: the Kindle turns out to be easier to read in brilliant sunshine than a paperback...
Finney insists that "the insurgents have taken a lot of hits, particularly at the high level ... We've put out several news releases about high-level commanders who have been dealt with, and that affects them. They haven't got an endless supply." He then belittled the Taliban: "They're just trying to chip away. [It's like] teasing your big sister. And they're just out to make life bloody difficult." - With reporting by Ali Safi / Kabul