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...reputation suggests. This is probably an exaggeration. Gilmour does not gloss over the famines that ravaged India repeatedly during the British Raj, killing millions; yet he calls them failures of policymakers at the top, and seems too eager to exculpate the ICS men who were in charge of arranging relief for the stricken districts. Some of them clearly failed to do their jobs properly. But while the ICS may not have been quite as brilliant as Gilmour would have us believe, it deserves its mystique. Whatever their faults, the officers were honest. They had vast opportunities to be corrupt...
...where the tremor pulverized hundreds of houses, burying sleeping families beneath the rubble. Those lucky enough to escape dug for survivors with their bare hands. Electricity and phone lines throughout much of the city were disrupted, and Yogyakarta's airport was temporarily closed due to damage, diverting much-needed relief flights. Makeshift ambulances picked their way along cratered roads to hospitals and clinics choked with the injured. Nurses laid the wounded in folding beds outside the buildings, for fear of aftershocks. Even more crowded were the morgues, which filled with the dead until corpses spilled over into the hallways...
...where the tremor pulverized hundreds of houses, burying sleeping families beneath the rubble. Those lucky enough to escape dug for survivors with their bare hands. Electricity and phone lines throughout much of the city were disrupted, and Yogyakarta's airport was temporarily closed due to damage, diverting much-needed relief flights. Makeshift ambulances picked their way along cratered roads to hospitals and clinics choked with the injured. Nurses laid the wounded in folding beds outside the buildings, for fear of aftershocks. Even more crowded were the morgues, which filled with the dead until corpses spilled over into the hallways...
...bought. Infidels, they think safety lies in accumulation of the things of this world, and in the corrupting diversions of the television set. They are slaves to images, false ones of happiness and affluence. But even true images are sinful imitations of God, who can alone create. Relief at escaping their students unscathed for another day makes the teachers' chatter of farewell in the halls and on the parking lot too loud, like the rising excitement of drunks. The teachers revel when they are away from the school. Some have the pink lids and bad breaths and puffy bodies...
...Houston, there is relief that the trial was over. ?Right up to the end, people were concerned they might get away with it,? said Robin Harrison, a Houston attorney representing the pensioners in their benefits case. ?It seems the jury was pretty cohesive. They just flat didn?t believe the testimony of the two men.? As Berg puts it, "The defense - that there was nothing wrong at Enron - was a demonstration of the kind of arrogance that brought them down...