Word: referents
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...someone of strong opinions that he voiced readily without any concern for what we today refer to as political correctness, a fine dry sense of humor and a tremendous degree of self-confidence,” Shapiro said...
...think Tracy Kidder is one of the best writers out there,” he says. “I love the way he writes, his spare prose, his humor, his humility, his ability to refer back to previous events or expressions…I can’t say that I’ve ever read a better book about those topics, or seen a better written book...
...lane attend school. Ghotair's pretty seven-year-old niece, Farzana, has already been promised to a man to whom the family owes $2,300. (He has agreed to write off $450 in exchange.) Rangina hears the story in horror. She admits to suffering from what returning Afghans ruefully refer to as "survivor guilt," wondering how she escaped the horrors that still enslave her new friends. As she leaves Ghotair's hut, pushing through the dirty rag, she sighs: "There is still...
...normally associated with science fiction. Gregory Benton creates a credible New York during the last days of Earth. Gigantic floods aren't enough to make some people move: they still buy toilet paper and pull giant worms off each other. Other contributors (there are over 25) only tangentially refer to space. Mark Burriur's "Piano Music" tells of a lonely piano teacher and the painting of outer space that distracts a talentless student. With an excellent variety of stories that go from cute to existential, editor and designer Chris Pitzer has put together one of the best-looking and best...
...maximal terrorists. But since Saddam and his loyalists have lost their state, the prudence that deterred them from working with the jihadists is gone. Together or alone, the radicals must strike in Iraq, the newest "field of jihad." That phrase, redolent of Scripture, is actually a modern coinage to refer to a theater of operations for the Islamist insurgency. There are many: the U.S. and Europe have emerged as central fields of jihad, along with Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Kashmir, Indonesia and others. The extremists will fight and die to evict "infidel" forces from those places, including any Muslim...