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...become the venerated Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of China and the ruler who would unify the nation, standardize the Chinese language and commence construction of the Great Wall. And on it goes. If you want to picture Li's résumé, imagine it on red paper and bedecked with gold stars...
...Wall Street, to be sure, and the results went unchecked by Congress. A Republican House helped pass the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the most sweeping regulatory bill since the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt. If Democrats rule unconstrained, we won't recognize our country in 30 years. Lori Zimmerman, Red Bank, New Jersey...
Back at Damaris' apartment, we sit at the table and pick stones out of the red beans she bought: the vendors put pebbles in to drive up their margins. The mix today is about one part rocks, four parts beans. Damaris shrugs. "You wake up thinking about where to get breakfast, you eat breakfast thinking about where to get lunch, and on it goes," she says. "To be Cuban is to be tired...
...since Freddy claims he's better known than I am in Managua, which I pretended to believe. When we started to talk about cupcake flavors, Freddy suggested vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, pineapple and banana. From my experiences in cupcake-eating, I told him he might want to start off with red velvet and chai. "Those flavors would be new to Nicaragua," he said, "and therefore there'd be a great demand for them." I could not have imagined finding a business partner who thinks so much like...
...known them since 2004? Right now I think they're more optimistic than they've ever been, but it's been a very rocky road. Think about being in a prison setting for seven years. For the first three, you're denied access to almost anybody besides the Red Cross and interrogators and finally lawyers get there in 2004. And yet the lawyers aren't able to do anything effectively for you until four years later. It's a long time to wait...