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...certain triumph. The Stable Boy’s eyes glittered wildly. The folds of his tunic began to tremble.“Ollie,” he said, “you’ve been of great service to me. Take this money and never expect to see me again.”“Well this is ’andsome recompensation indeed!” said Ollie, weighing the stuffed purse in his little hands. “Where will you go now?”“To finish it,” said...
...Parliament building in Cardiff in front of the Queen. For Lewis, the best part of being a National Poet was her interactions with ordinary people. “I met all kinds of people and experienced a tremendous amount of warmth from ordinary people. I didn’t expect that,” she says. “People would come up to me and say ‘Are you the poet?’” Currently, Lewis is working on two plays based on the Clytemnestra story, as well as a novella that...
Nothing so cheers the soul of a hardened businessman as the sight of a competitor on his knees. So you'd expect the spectacle this week of Detroit's struggling Big Three carmakers begging Congress for $34 billion in loans and lines of credit would be cause to break out the sake in Japanese boardrooms...
...Most political experts expect the Minnesota election to be decided in the courts or even in the state senate. In short, it's a mess. But it's not that unusual. A look back at some similarly close - and even closer - races provides some lessons on where things might go in the Minnesota contest, the only remaining undecided 2008 Senate race. (Republican Saxby Chambliss thumped Democratic challenger Jim Martin in a Dec. 2 runoff...
...reason the negotiations have taken more than 10 weeks, Gel-Qonaf said, is the large number of people involved who expect to get a cut from any hijacking, ranging from pirate commanders to leaders of the embattled U.S.-backed transitional government of Somalia as well as its nemesis, the Islamist Shabab militia. Lowest in the pecking order, it seems, are the gunmen who actually captured the ships. (See pictures of Somalia's brazen pirates...