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...words of his subtitle, "Britain and Chile's hidden history." But how much of what he relates actually has been hidden, in any deliberate sense? Much of his information has been pulled together - well - from personal interviews and a wealth of published material. History has been hiding in plain sight. This is strikingly seen, for example, in Beckett's enterprising visit to Rolls-Royce workers in Scotland who, just days after Pinochet and his fellow military chiefs seized power in 1973, had refused to service the engines of eight British-made Hawker Hunter fighter jets like those used to attack...
...England's coach Sven-G?ran Eriksson and German great Franz Beckenbauer, among others, suggested that the dull performances by hotly favored teams were down to Europe-based players being just plain knackered from a long season of club football. But the teams that excelled in the first two weeks of the World Cup?Brazil, Spain, Germany, Denmark, Sweden?were full of Europe-based players. Nobody clocked more hours in the pro season than Spain's Real Madrid contingent: in addition to the closely contested domestic league, their club went the full distance in the Spanish King...
BOTTOM LINE: Don't worry if you just plain hate, say, snakes or crowds or heights. The key is how powerful your feelings are--and how you handle them...
ROCK-SOLID SUTRA Nobody knows why the ruling 10th century Chandela clan picked this desolate spot on a heat-seared plain 300 kilometers southwest of Varanasi as the site for its prodigious spree of temple building?nearly 100 in as many years. But it's a good thing the Moguls, who were lopping off the heads of idolatrous sculptures in their rampage across northern India, never found them. They would have been apoplectic with rage at the temples' stone figures communing in sexual positions that would make a Pattaya prostitute blush...
...away the best student” in high school, Zemon remembers. “He was just in a plain by himself and he continued that at Harvard...