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...business. They wanted to make sure DeLay's little delegation had the finest of everything on its weeklong trip to Britain--from lodgings at the Four Seasons Hotel in London to dinners at the poshest restaurants with the most interesting people, right down to the best tickets for The Lion King--at the time, one of the hottest shows playing on the West End and one for which good seats usually meant a six-month wait. So DeLay's congressional office turned to someone they trusted far more than any travel agent or concierge: lobbyist Jack Abramoff...
...light cuts to the heart of the family, or should. The discovery provokes another death. Yet the survivors behave more or less as they would have done if nothing had occurred. This is not satire, with the family members portrayed as herd animals who go on grazing as a lion drags down one of them. The author is sharp but not cruel. She does not tell her story in order to solve a murder (although solve it she does) nor to subject her characters to unbearable stress in order to analyze their failures. The dark secret of the well...
...every dragon, lion or bear, there is an emblem that seems to have no ferocity at all. A modern officer might not wish to appear before his men with a pair of enormous formalized rabbit ears stuck to his helmet. One might as well pretend to be a chicken. But not in 17th century Japan, where rabbits symbolized long life and virility and were a favored helmet motif. (Americans see an old man in the moon; Japanese saw the silhouette of a rabbit with mortar and pestle, pounding out the elixir of life.) Likewise, the clam is peaceable...
...part because the neighborhood is so poor, in part because all the residents, from the baker and the tailor to the kids and seniors, are skilled in martial arts. The Landlady (Yuen Qiu), spuming belligerence, can suck a cigarette to cinders in one deep breath, and has a lion's roar scream that rattles windows a continent away. Into the alley wanders Sing (Chow), a loser punk who is desperate to be an Axe man. But destiny has another, redemptive scenario in store. This accident-prone scoundrel has the makings of a natural-born kung fu genius--just the fellow...
...image of Ethiopia is the face of famine. Hollow cheeks and desolate eyes are symbols of the country's present catastrophe. But they say nothing about its astonishing past. Today it is hard to recall Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, who reigned as Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until 1974, when he was deposed at the age of 82, less than a year before his death. A half-century ago, Haile Selassie was an international hero. In 1935, Ethiopia, also known as Abyssinia, consumed almost as much editorial space as it does today. But the world...