Word: quirk
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Mile: 2.Devin Lyons-Quirk...
...Staff writer Matthew F. Quirk can be reached at quirk@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Matthew F. Quirk can be reached at quirk@fas.harvard.edu...
Musharraf has done more in the past few weeks to set his mark on Pakistan than he managed during the previous two years. He often said he was catapulted to power by a quirk of fate. When his predecessor, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, tried to fire him as army chief, loyal cohorts arrested Sharif, and Musharraf declared himself the new chief executive. His first months in office were marked by contradiction and lack of vision. He required a personal loyalty oath from high court judges but spoke fondly of "consensus." His promises of economic revival and "true" democracy to replace...
...other family members’ eyes. Enid’s various preoccupations and foolish hopes are justified and compelling in her own mind, but after we see her as her children and her husband do she becomes, in our eyes, more vulnerable and more real. We see one quirk or fear or desire and then we see it reflected or distorted or reproduced from another side, and the result is that everyone lives only in relation to everyone else. This complex of common fears and disjointed hopes and frustrations allows for a deeper and more nuanced understanding...