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Despite its plot, “Red Riding” is not a story about serial killers or brutal murders—it is about all of the things that surround them: the parents, the police, the newspapers, and the communities all trying to make sense of these brutal events...
Conservatives seemed to make clear, though, that any alliance with the movement would have to be on the terms the manifesto has set forth. "You cannot dictate beliefs to people," Keene says. "What you can do is say, Here's a cohesive set of values and beliefs that have tied us together ... We'd love to have you share them with us." That sort of courtship, says conservative commentator David Frum, reflects the determination of the Beltway insiders to dig in their heels against efforts to remake a party they've helped build. "It's the last stand...
...since likened to "tufts of grass among the ruins" of the fratricidal war - a typically earthy metaphor for a poet derided by his detractors as artless and quaintly rustic. The landscapes in his poems are undeniably folksy. Villagers get drunk on bootleg makgeolli - the milky, fizzy rice wine making a comeback in South Korea these days, thanks in part to a national grain surplus. Surprised burglars are spotlit by incandescent moons. Young lovers do amorous things in barley fields while dogs couple in dusty streets. Fauna make their appearance throughout Ko's work - he jabbers lovingly with crabs and cuttlefish...
...often told in Haiti, 'You are a burden to society and to your family - people do not have the time for you.'" Before he performs an amputation there, Ford says, patients often shout, "You might as well as kill me, because I won't be able to make a living." Haitian officials "have no choice now but to figure out a way to make amputees functional as valued contributors...
...make us feel better to label the IRGC as a terrorist organization, but it's more instructive to look at things from the IRGC's perspective. It truly believes that its brand of asymmetrical warfare can defeat a modern, well-equipped force in a limited war. It did so in Lebanon, and given the right circumstances, it would do so in other parts of the Middle East. But the real point is that in a limited war with the U.S. and Israel, the IRGC could predominate, or at least wear us down to the point that we would decide...