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...natives who are restless. Fairley, the harmless handyman of the good-hearted family that shelters him, stirs paranoia among the ignorant and the intolerant. Like the branches of their clans who thrived on slave labor in the American South, these early Queenslanders worry about uprisings and the loss of racial identity...
...need for analysis. As the Philadelphia Daily News advised in a back-page headline, WHY ASK HOW? The Blue Jays, with their pristine hitters, are the Series favorites. In Game 1 they looked as dominating as any Apollo Creed, and the Phils looked rocky in an 8-5 loss. But the bad boys of Philly don't mind being the junkyard underdogs. Hell, they've had so much fun this far, they just might party all year...
...televised reports on Jesse and his parents. ''Our baby could not live,'' said Walters, whose son was brain-dead at birth. ''We'd seen their plea on TV, and we figured that if our baby could help them, then it would not be a total loss.'' But what television had failed to reveal was that an infant in Louisville had been waiting even longer for a heart. The parents of Baby Calvin had elected to work quietly through organ-procurement networks rather than seek publicity for their child. Upset that their baby, who should have had priority, had been passed...
With extremely limited facility in Japanese, I am also generally at a loss to understand advertisements. An occasional English word accompanied by a photo tends to indicate that cell phone providers and green tea producers frequent the walls of the Tokyo metro. Posters supporting the Tokyo 2016 Olympic bid have been a recent addition...
...priority remains a stable Iraqi nation-state, and he is willing to risk ever more American blood and treasure over the coming years in that quest. For Obama, the first priority is an exit from the country, and he is willing to risk civil chaos in Iraq and a loss of American influence in the region...