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...referring to two trailer-mounted laboratories that the CIA had deduced must have been for the production of biological weapons as it could imagine no other use for the facilities. But reports quickly emerged that CIA analysts were sharply divided over the conclusion that the labs had a WMD function, and this time the transatlantic connection produced worse news: The official British intelligence inquiry found that the labs couldn't be used in a WMD program, and were intended to produce hydrogen for artillery balloons sold to Iraq by a British company in the 1980s...
There are lives being lived in the meticulously designed room settings at Ikea, even if they're fictional lives. "The settings that we do are all written to a brief that describes who lives there and what function the space has to perform for them," says Clive Cashman, the chain's U.S. public-affairs manager. A space designed for a young woman in a small apartment might feature a gate-leg table and chairs that can be hung on the wall; for a single parent, the store will show toy storage that is accessible to kids but can be easily...
...from Bengali, are presented in absurdly ungrammatical English; but when Nazneen, who has no more education than her sister, composes a reply, it's in flawless, if simple, prose. A large chunk of the middle of the book is given over to Hasina's rambling correspondence, and its chief function is to mark the passing of years: a clunky effort to move the story forward. The absence of narrative punch is compounded by a paucity of interesting characters. Brick Lane seems to be populated entirely by clichés, one-dimensional people taken straight from a textbook of Indo-Anglian...
Gomes suggests that ousting Lewis had been given priority above fleshing out how the administration would actually function under the new system. According to Gomes, the game plan had been to implement changes to get rid of the dean first and worry later about the logistics of these changes...
...women faculty probably, one, they wish to be able to function in their academic environment without harassment and hassle and, two, they are very overworked,” says Welch. “You put the two together they’re going to try to follow a course that will not hinder their own position...