Word: palmful
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...Bradshaw along, molding her but also being molded by her "lovely quick hands." The speech in which she passionately defends her compliance ("no is misery and lonely nights") is but one of a half-dozen moments when the seemingly sparrow-sized Davis holds the 300-seat theater in the palm of her hand. It's spellbinding stuff. No doubt some will find argument with Barker's language (the c-word is used as freely as punctuation) and view of history (he's clearly no monarchist), but they won't see a livelier, more cantankerous production this year. Barker has said...
...high in April and foreign-currency reserves are the largest ever at $37 billion. The economy is growing at its fastest rate since 2000, fueled in part by China's soaring demand for commodities?the 17,000-island archipelago is rich in oil, natural gas, gold, copper, nickel, coal, palm oil and rubber. Global confidence in Indonesia's prospects has also improved somewhat. In March, the country successfully raised $1 billion in its first international sovereign-bond issue since the 1997 Asian crisis...
...favorite among literary societies and has met with dozens of them on his U.S. promotional tour for The Full Cupboard of Life (Pantheon; 198 pages), the most recent Ramotswe book, out this week. "I do 150 ladies at a time, at lunch," he says of gatherings he visited in Palm Springs, Calif.; Palm Beach, Fla.; and Las Vegas, to name a few. "Did you even know there was a Las Vegas literary society?" he asks, unleashing his delighted, high-pitched laugh...
...achieve its goalsno matter how honorable or correct its cause should have no voice, no credibility and no place in civilized society. Your reporting only reinforced the belief that Jewish blood is cheap, that anti-Semitism is valid and that Israel should quietly disappear into the sea. PAUL STEVENS Palm Beach...
...even its besieged enclaves are a naturalist's paradise. No Amazon jungle can beat the diversity and uniqueness of species to be found there. Half the island's birds, upwards of 80% of its plants and 90% of its reptiles can be found nowhere else on earth, and, says palm expert John Dransfield of the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew in the U.K., "we are discovering new species at an astounding rate." Many, like the now-famous rosy periwinkle, a source of compounds used to treat leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, have huge medicinal potential. "It has become...