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...officials. They rationalize that France's departure would almost certainly bring about a war for possession between Ethiopia, which uses an Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway link as an economic lifeline, and Somalia, which was the ancestral home of the Issas. As one official put it: "The problems we inherit by staying are not as bad as the problems we would cause by leaving...
...Night Thoreau Spent In Jail. Trying to re-create the success of their Inherit the Wind, authors Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee can't do for Henry David Thoreau what they did for Clarence Darrow. Ideas are thick and the drama is this, although audiences don't seem to mind...
This excellent biography was written by Virginia Woolf s nephew. The first sentence?"Virginia Woolf was a Miss Stephen"?sets the stance: just a slight bow to a heavy heritage. More important than Bell's style is his detachment, a quality that he certainly did not inherit. The Stephen family was part of the intellectual wing of Britain's upper middle class; Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a famous essayist and man of letters. Altogether, they were an excitable clan, idealistic, moralistic, painfully interdependent, swept along by unrecognized currents of passionate attraction that stopped just short...
CSCR is survived by other advisory committees -- the Committee on Investment and the Committee on Community Affairs -- which will inherit its functions and maybe its ills...
...much Judas, the political revolutionary, and this unscrupulous priest resemble each other. They are both, in fact, unpleasant Ubermen-schen who see themselves as saviors of mankind but scorn all other men and other men's laws. Judas and Della Paresi agree that the meek will never inherit the earth...