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Forglory meets a cast of characters including evil villains, ghosts, and railway tycoons in search of the “Oregon Grail—the spirit of the West,” Gale Rosen said...
...allegations of rape have the rough-and-tumble province, rich with natural gas fields, up in arms?literally. Baluch tribesmen have attacked a refinery and pumping station at the Sui gas fields, have sabotaged the pipeline that sends the natural gas to the rest of Pakistan, have blown up railway lines, and have rocketed the provincial capital, Quetta. In response, President Pervez Musharraf has sent 4,500 paramilitary troops, backed by 20 tanks and nine helicopter gunships, to Baluchistan to try to restore order. It will be a tricky mission. "This could be our last battle," Baluch tribal chieftain Attaullah...
...good enough to be retold in the Jubilee Number of their Illustrated London News. "You Americans," continued the King to Mr. Page, "have a queer use of the word 'some' to express mere bigness or emphasis. Well, an American and an Englishman were riding in the same railway compartment. The American read his paper diligently- all the details of a big battle. When he got done he put the paper down and said: 'Some fight!' 'And some don't!' said the Englishman. Ha, ha, Mr. Ambassador- a good one on you!" And King...
...three linked stories that follow--Chance, Soon and Silence--another young woman, a student of classical literature named Juliet, throws in her lot with a man she meets on an overnight railway trip. The stories then follow her across decades as time works its deeper operations--slowly, definitively, sometimes mercilessly. "So this is grief," she thinks at one point. "She feels as if a sack of cement has been poured into her and quickly hardened." After many years she arrives at last at a final equilibrium that could almost be called peace if you did not know all the things...
...ARGENTINA $20 billion in railway and energy investments...