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Lately, a lot more has been bothering General Augusto Pinochet of Chile than his bad back. Visiting the United Kingdom for surgery, the former dictator of Chile was threatened with extradition by a Spanish judge for mass murder and brutality during his reign. Britain's House of Lords declined to give him the immunity heads of state usually receive, since hostage-taking and torture "do not qualify as legitimate acts of a head of state." By December 11, the British home secretary must decide whether or not to give the man with the bad back a break...
Consider a scene in his magnificent 1893 book, The Wilderness Hunter: one minute Roosevelt watches, with a benign Wild Kingdom-documentary fascination, as two rutting bull elk clash in the Bitterroot Mountains, with a third bull, whom Roosevelt calls "the peacemaker," trying to intervene, and the next minute, having made the reader see and almost love the animals and wish them well in the exuberant politics of their courtships, Teddy lifts his rifle and blows away all the bulls, dropping them one, two, three...
...people who wanted him out were the Democrats, but they didn't want to go through the process of getting him out. What they actually wanted to do was wish him away. But, as I've explained to you before, Nigel, the United States, unlike the United Kingdom, has a written Constitution, and even people who do not consider themselves strict constructionists agree that there is no provision in the Constitution for wishing a President away. It's apparently one of the few contingencies that the drafters never considered...
...engaging characters and the refreshing lines of description and dialogue of Wide Open have garnered high praise since its release in the United Kingdom about six months ago; this Stateside release is an excellent trans-Atlantic introduction to the ferocious originality of Nicola Barker's work. It is a novel into which, like Ronny listening to a story of Jim's we are "slowly, safely, surely, soundly" hooked...
Eyes are a nuisance here, far beyond the point where light is able to filter through the water from the surface. Yet giant squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, Ellis said...