Word: journeys
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...Widener’s gutter when you become overwhelmed (you will). But Hist and Lit giveth and it taketh: jettisoning schoolwork for extracurricular commitments or a hot date will fly about as well as a hardback copy of Swann’s Way.Your Hist and Lit journey begins when you select your field of study. You may study one country, two countries, or a region or group of countries within a specific time period (the Post-Colonial field is the most recent addition; post-1750 is the most popular). Your coursework must sample the history and literature of your country...
...make mistakes along the way, in certain decisions, that every government makes. But our effort is to try to put the country together in this journey. To have the whole country together in this journey. My first job is the unity of Afghanistan. My first job is to carry this country along every part of it, every segment...
...thunderheads on the horizon opened like a curtain, and a speedboat came rocketing towards us. Casta?o had sent the boat. Thoughtfully, he'd also provided rain slickers for us. We bounded across the choppy water, into the seam of black clouds. The journey lasted an hour, with lightning spearing around us. Finally, we sighted land. I don't know if it was Panama or Colombia; it was all jungle. But the launch pulled up at a dock and a farmhouse materialized in the mist. I could make out the silhouettes of towering mercenaries who looked like they had been outfitted...
...landed on an airstrip cut in a cane field, and a very muscular Colombian escorted us to his four-wheel drive vehicle. There was another passenger: a glamorous woman whose arms were so laden with gold and emerald jewelry she could barely lift them. She was silent the entire journey, pensively tracing raindrops on the car window with her red lacquered fingernails...
...summer double issue, which revisited the epic journey to the East undertaken by the Venetian explorer Marco Polo in the 13th century, turned out to be a voyage of discovery for our readers...