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...mad hatter might feel at home in the Wonderland of Iraq. The day is already growing hot as lines of ramshackle buses and black-windowed Mercedes jam the normally empty highway to Tikrit, the rural hometown of Saddam Hussein. It's April 28, Saddam's 65th birthday. Crowds of military men with fat moustaches, sheiks in flowing robes and farmers in shabby pants spill onto the expansive parade ground Saddam has built for special occasions like this. High-ranking guests fill up chairs in a large pseudohistorical reviewing stand where Mussolini would have felt at home...
...philosophy/ Hopeless explanation to describe a situation, I can't see because the world's on top of me." Hill lifts her game while beating herself down. At the end of the first disc, on the standout I Gotta Find Peace of Mind, she sings, "Please don't be mad with me, I have no identity/All that I've known is gone, all I was building on." Then she breaks down in tears...
...good job to make me rush it a little bit,” Crockett said. “But that’s the stuff you work on in practice. You’re mad at yourself for a couple of minutes, but you have to flush it out of your head for the next batter...
...Pagan is low season for good reason. The relentless sun bakes its temple-strewn plain into a shimmering illusion of a chess game?if chess had 2,217 pieces, rather than 34. At midday even mad dogs take refuge, though not straw-hatted tourists on five-day whirlwind tours of Burma shuttling through their checklists of temples in air-conditioned comfort. The heat has its benefits, however. Summer is the time of flowers: thick bougainvillaea blooms in shockingly bright pink, jacarandas litter the paths with purple petals, and flame trees force starbursts of red against whitewashed temple walls...
...Mad scientists, preoccupied philosophers and cerebral academics have never been particularly well known for their social skills or for their organizational habits, but five of them will try their hand at both when they assume the role of the Allston Burr senior tutor in September...