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...unseen presence of victorious corruption” that Marlow senses in Colonel Kurtz. “There is no doubt the brute has courage—a horrid, fearful courage, and endurance, and a cunning mind too... This is an educated man of a sort, who has lived long in London, knows the meanings of his crimes and their true aspect in all civilized eyes...
...Roger Casement rarely failed to make a deep, lasting, highly favourable impression,” Goodman tells us. He quotes a fellow activist, Edmund Morel, recalling his first impressions of Casement: “I saw before me a man, my own height, very lithe and sinewy... A long lean, swarthy Vandyke type of face, graven with power and withal of great gentleness.” Casement emerges as a brave and sensitive campaigner with a strong sense of moral purpose, dogged in his pursuit of Arana, who, having driven out all competition for rubber-production in Iquitos...
...Russian teams opened the door for the two Chinese pairs. (Germans Robin Szolkowy and Aliona Savchenko won the bronze.) China's Pang Qing and Tong Jian were flawless, turning in that whoa-worthy performance you're glad you didn't miss. However, their fourth-place ranking coming into the long program prevented them from overtaking gold medalists Zhao Hongbo and Shen Xue. The husband-and-wife team was smooth but not as spectacular as their compatriots, who had to settle for second...
...sense of responsibility, and now we're supposed to fix it," says Karen Schumann, 27, a Berlin media consultant. The complaint has a familiar ring to it. Greece has a staggering budget deficit of 12.7% of GDP and a $410 billion public debt, which free-spending Greek officials long kept secret from the rest of the euro zone. Now that Greece is on the verge of defaulting, its monetary partners will have to hand over huge loans to help keep the country solvent - all in order to prevent the euro from going into a free fall and becoming mere Monopoly...
Bordry denies the existence of a vendetta. He says it was American cycling officials and international authorities who decided to ban Landis and uphold the stripping of his 2006 Tour title for cheating. "That decision was made without any ambiguity long ago," Bordry says. "This is a legal inquiry into the violation of French...