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...Obama down to final major pre-Inaugural decision...
...until they have gone through the appropriate procedures of circumcision. Once circumcised, everything in their lives changes. Villagers knew that Monika was a woman simply because of the words she used to greet people. I seemed to be the only person in the village who did not consider my pre-pubescent homestay sister to be an adult. One hot afternoon, Monika broached the subject of her womanhood by asking me if I knew what the word “kutahiriwa” meant. I did not. If you look the word up in a Swahili dictionary, you will see that...
...Okay, fine. Then our youth. Or rather, our pre-senior citizenship...
...When a Blair House decorator sent Barbara Bush a note about minding the fine china during George H.W. Bush's pre-presidential stay in 1989, the First Lady-elect sent her own note back: "We're playing football with the china. Don't worry about it, everything will be mended with Elmer's glue...
...Jewish and made his millions in pop music. Reviews had already parsed the similarities between Hare's characters and real-life Blairites, while newspapers had printed accusations from Levy's rabbi - who hadn't seen the play - that the character of Fallon was anti-Semitic. Infuriated, Hare had refused pre-opening interviews. "It's incredibly difficult to create a work of art and have anybody talk about the work itself," he says over tea at a London hotel, a month into the play...