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...Yale, we have actual STUDENT-athletes, as well as recruiting standards. In other words, The New York Times didn’t write an exposé about us illegally recruiting athletes that didn’t meet admissions standards. You even rigged global warming to give us Ice Age-esque weather in Cambridge! Now, baseball is taking notes from you about cheating...
...object of his desire is Geraldina, a wife and mother of two, whom he admires from his vantage point atop a ladder while picking oranges. His wife, Otilia, notes and censures his voyeurism, but Ismael’s desire is compulsive and extends to every young female character we meet. Each is subjected to his scopophilia, described in terms that evoke the ripeness of fruit; Gracelita, aged twelve, is “almost plump, and yet willowy” and sways her backside as she washes the dishes, while Geraldina sunbathes naked, “stretched out with no concern...
...Ashton roundly rejected claims that she had been catapulted from obscurity to meet the E.U.'s demands for a token, center-left woman. "Am I an ego on legs? No, I'm not," she said. "Judge me on what I do, and I think you'll be proud...
...During his annual foreign policy speech at London's Guildhall on Monday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown groped for a way to meet that aspiration by offering to host a conference involving NATO and the Afghan government in January to set out an Afghan exit strategy. The conference "should identify a process for transferring district by district to full Afghan control and - if at all possible - set a timetable for transfer starting in 2010," he said. (See pictures of British soldiers in Afghanistan...
...Manuel Barroso, is also from the center right. Ashton was a dark horse, but she was seen as a consolation prize for Britain's center-left Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after his attempt to secure the presidency for Blair was rebuffed. For E.U. leaders struggling to meet the criteria - a task that one official likened to "three-dimensional chess" - they could at least claim that the Van Rompuy-Ashton duo hit most of their buttons...