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Every summer the ancient Egyptians threw a beautiful virgin into the Nile to propitiate the river god. The Nile was Egypt's lifeblood: its waters renewed the parched land, and its sediment enriched the soil. But at times there was too much water, engulfing fields and villages, or too little, bringing famine and death...
Whether bursting the seams of a five-story New York City brownstone and a summer home at Oyster Bay, or sailing up the Nile in the winter of 1872-73, the Roosevelts appeared to be living one inspired moment after another. A friend observed that they constituted "a family so rarely gifted as to seem ... touched by the flame of the 'divine fire.' " But, as David McCullough's family portrait reveals, tragic cracks flawed all the Roosevelts, particularly the man who was, as if by mutual choice, the family's crown prince...
Could not Heart of Darkness be offset by Heart of Lightness, in which Marlow narrates how the kindly Mr. Kurtz dedicated himself voluntarily to training the tribes along the Nile in personal hygiene? Might not The Call of the Wild be counterbalanced by The Call of the Tame, in which a big, clumsy, good-natured dog named Buck goes on a tour of Hollywood homes, including Lassie's? Who could be offended if An American Tragedy spun off a happy shadow called An American Comedy, in which Clyde Griffiths saves his girlfriend Roberta from drowning and receives...
...internal security than to defend the country against external threats. "This is a necessity because the police force was nearly wiped out by Amin." As if to punctuate his remarks, a burst of shots fired by a nervous soldier crackled outside Muwanga's suite in Kampala's Nile Mansions Hotel...
...sold Israel $500 million in oil-a quarter of its production-and has picked up another $15 million from tourism. Egyptian agronomists are soliciting Israeli help for advanced irrigation projects. President Anwar Sadat has offered a reciprocal arrangement for the future, to bring "the sweet waters of the Nile" across the Sinai to Israel's Negev desert...