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...what blacks have "to show America and the world." This time the fire is like burning coal: strong, quiet, productive energy. Your article rings true with my experiences: Obama is not the wave; he rides it. He represents what we are striving for in ways that transcend race. Gerald Remington, Orange City, Florida...
...what blacks have "to show America and the world." This time the fire is like flames from coal: strong, quiet, productive energy. Your article rings true with my experiences: Obama is not the wave; he rides it. He represents what we strive for in ways that transcend race. Gerald Remington, ORANGE CITY...
...Monfreid meets, among others, an imprisoned spy (a "venomous reptile") whose escape he enables and later regrets; a Chinese trepang trader on a deserted island; a metrosexual polyglot butler; a Bedouin shouldering a Remington; a priest who manufactures hashish; and a hashish distributor who operates from an undertaker's office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...
...Perlmutter, who had bought control of the distressed outfit the previous year, hired as CEO Peter Cuneo, who had turned around such companies as Remington, Clairol and Black & Decker. Under the duo's guidance, Marvel slowly transformed itself into a conservative but lucrative licensing business. "I always tell people that when you come out of bankruptcy, it's like chemotherapy. You may be cured of cancer, but you're still very weak," says Cuneo, now a Marvel vice chairman. "But then along came Spider...
...next door to Fire Station Number 2. With the seven-power Bushnells, he could read room numbers on the motel doors 70 yards distant, and the same strength on his Redfield scope would make human figures seem only 30 ft. away. The scope was mounted on a .30-06 Remington Gamemaster, which was engineered so that its 150-grain slug would lose less than .01 inch in altitude and reach the motel balcony with 2,370 pounds of knockdown power--enough to drop a rhinoceros. However, the odd angle of an occluding building next door meant the convict could fire...