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...most revered contemporary American playwright due to his ability to create a distinct language for his characters. Listen to the way the real estate salesmen talk about the “leads” in Glengarry Glenross or how Fox talks about setting up a meeting in Speed-the-Plow. The characters grasp at words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren’t, but they all try to believe...
...government will plow more funds into precision-guided munitions, sophisticated communications and surveillance systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles, but "it's not clear this is going to be a Reagan-era buildup," warns Michael Vickers of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments...
...return address. If Osama bin Laden is indeed to blame, he and his network will become targets of the most far-reaching and determined counter-terrorist operation in history. But even if we do find the culprits, how should we respond? Should we remake Afghanistan as a smoldering plain, plow the fields with salt, wreck a terrible vengeance...
Hawaneen arrived at the Herat camp a month ago after selling his plow and even the tin roof off his house to pay for the journey. Now, in the barren, sand-blown camp, Hawaneen crouches against the wind and watches in dumb agony as a Muslim cleric lays the bony, starved corpse of his eight-year-old son on a plastic sheet spread on the ground and washes him for burial...
...Georgia boy destined to become President grew up near the Depression-ravaged settlement of Archery, bereft of indoor plumbing and electricity. He became an accomplished child farmer, and even today can explain how to plow a straight furrow. In this captivating memoir he recalls his eccentric forebears, among them, the great-great-grandfather who married the sister of his deceased wife, then asked to be buried between the women but "tilted a little toward" the first wife...