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...Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859, into a respectable middle-class Catholic family. Still, it was far from an easy life. There was never enough money; they moved frequently in search of lower rents; and his father, a civil servant and illustrator, was an alcoholic who had to be institutionalized. Yet the early letters are surprisingly upbeat, concerned mainly with food, clothes, allowances and schoolwork. At 14 came his first unforgettable visit to London, including Madame Tussaud's, where he was "delighted with the room of Horrors, and the images of the murderers...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV, former Soviet leader, on the slow recovery efforts in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward...
...Kluger once wrote of Brown, "Probably no case ever to come before the nation's highest tribunal affected more directly the minds, hearts and daily lives of so many Americans." All these years later, the Seattle and Kentucky cases affected "a few handfuls" of students in Seattle, according to lower court findings, and fewer than 1 out of 20 school assignments in Jefferson County...
Even without the Tiger factor, though, the upper range of the residential golf market--with million-dollar homes and six-figure memberships--has shown a resilience, while the lower and midrange suffers with the housing market in general. "The strength of the upper end of the marketplace continues to astound everyone," exclaims Johnny Harris, president of Charlotte development company Lincoln Harris. "The supply may be overdone in the less expensive locations, but there are golf courses still being built all over this country at the absolute highest end, which is astounding...
...which makes their mouths froth alarmingly with bloodred saliva. The oldest monk, who is 49 and holds a Burmese translation of Francis Fukuyama's The Great Disruption, says the monks have three demands: "Release Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners; begin a process of national reconciliation; lower the prices of daily commodities...