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...make a deep, lasting, highly favourable impression,” Goodman tells us. He quotes a fellow activist, Edmund Morel, recalling his first impressions of Casement: “I saw before me a man, my own height, very lithe and sinewy... A long lean, swarthy Vandyke type of face, graven with power and withal of great gentleness.” Casement emerges as a brave and sensitive campaigner with a strong sense of moral purpose, dogged in his pursuit of Arana, who, having driven out all competition for rubber-production in Iquitos by 1907, had succeeded...
Thus begins Tennessee Williams’ famed four-character play, “The Glass Menagerie,” a touching tale about the struggle to support a fragile family, the disappointments that one encounters in this endeavor, and the difficult decisions one must face when trying to keep these loved ones secure...
...Haiti co-organizer Jim Henle said that, while it is unusual for typically solitary poets to make public appearances, it should happen more often. “I think it’s a good thing for the poetry community to think of itself as having a public face. We can play a role in helping people, in galvanizing sentiment, even action, around the world,” he said...
...opposition organizers are sensing an opportunity to expand their base socially and geographically beyond the main cities. On Monday, Feb. 15, the head of the Iranian electricity-workers union said that more than 900,000 of its members are about to lose their jobs and that the country could face an electricity crisis and blackouts because the government - the main customer for Iran's electricity plants - isn't paying its bills. Last week, Tehran's bus-drivers union announced it was allying itself with the Green Movement and called on Tehranis to go out and cause traffic jams...
...charges, believes that the hacking allegations are persecution by the French doping authorities in order to obfuscate their own shortcomings. "It appears to be another case of fabricated evidence by a French lab who [sic] is still upset a United States citizen believed he should have the right to face his accusers and defend himself," Landis told the Los Angeles Times via e-mail. In the same message, Landis suggested Cassuto's warrant was unfounded. "No attempt has been made to formally contact me." (See how the Floyd Landis scandal broke...