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...People don't usually see this side of Africa," McCall Smith says by way of explaining the books' success. "They just see war, famine and oppression." In his Botswana, people go about their business with good humor and goodwill, earnestly meeting the quotidian challenges common to every country. The books also "make a moral point about the importance of courtesy, of trying to keep traditional ways," says the author. Thus Ramotswe's fiance is always referred to as Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni and his place of work by its full name, the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. AIDS, on the other hand...
...video-nerd one-upmanship, Vol. 2 is a relationship movie, a character study. It focuses on a handful of ornery but ordinary folks--the three remaining killers--and the flashes of rancor, jealousy, ennui and humor that illuminate their lives in the moments before the Bride tries to end them. The two brothers even achieve a reflective acceptance of their guilt. As Budd tells Bill, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die." A pause. "Then again, so does she." Well, nobody's perfect...
...this, he is both loved and reviled. He is loved for his undeniable charm, good humor and geniality. He is reviled for excessive rigidity, indifference to those outside his political orbit and lack of reflection and curiosity. But he is also rightly respected for the way he led the country out of one of its darkest hours into a world where it seemed safe again to engage in partisan bickering and cultural warfare. His rhetoric in those grim days rose to the challenge of ordinary greatness; he calmed and rallied in ways few could have predicted. And in Afghanistan...
...those who know him best Sam Morison's bark is worse than his bite. At the age of fifty-four, the scholar with an almost forbidding air of formality has mellowed into an affable squire with a Pickwickian sense of humor. Though his main interests are still U. S. History before 1860 and Christopher Columbus, to hear him talk one would think that life consisted solely of sailing, horseback riding, and the tinkle of slender glasses filled with wine. Back in 1917 Professor Morison talked differently. The call to arms saw him enlist as a private, and though he never...
...humor wasn’t enough. The campaign dragged to an eventual halt in Wisconsin four weeks later. It seemed that after the promise of a new kind of politics, Dean would be relegated to the status of cautionary tale...