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...them are guarded, and for a legitimate reason: the fault lines between the migrants and the middle class are very real. Petty crime - theft, primarily - is common; and rarely do the two groups interact. Qiu, the young woman who loaded bricks, told me I was the only "rich" person she had ever had a long conversation with since she started working here two years ago. The only thing that unites the two groups is China's continued growth. My middle-class neighbors, like Yu Xiang, take it as a given. "As long as there is economic development that will allow...
...Dexter is also an exploration of what morality is. Is Dexter truly a moral person or an animal who's learned a sophisticated trick? "People fake a lot of human interactions," he says, "but I feel like I fake them all. And I fake them very well." Unlike CSI, Dexter is informed by a philosophical question: whether humanity is more than the sum of one's outward actions...
...there anything McCain can do to convince you he's acceptable? I don't think he should even try. He's got to be who he is. I don't think he needs to reach out. His job is not to be acceptable to a single person. I'm not sitting here demanding that. I don't have that kind of sense of power or existence. That's one of the things that sort of amuses me about all this. You know, he had Bob Dole send that letter. And Phil Gramm has called. Phil Gramm was in Davos...
...will surface, such as "Talent On Loan from God." You know people think I'm saying I'm Christ, which I'm not. But it's just these little signature things that sometimes rub people the wrong way or make them think that I'm an arrogant and pompous person. Those are just the showbiz things...
Indeed, such was Mughniyah's mythical status that sometimes it was not always certain if he really existed at all. "I sometimes would ask myself if Mughniyah was a real person or a figment of imagination," said Magnus Ranstorp, a Hizballah specialist at the Swedish National Defense College in Stockholm who has traced Mughniyah's activities for years. "But the intelligence agencies I was in contact with were under no illusions. He was the real deal...