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...when I drop that bomb like I’m over Baghdad. They genuflect. They whisper “genius,” or “beatific,” or “God-like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted meats and fine wine. Then, they create a feudal system in which I deny all capitalist bourgeois ascendancy and reinstall the fin de siècle leisure class. Your parents love you, assumedly. After all, you go to Harvard. When they remind others of your greatness...
...answer, when Gui hit on it, turned out to be a political hot potato. In the 1980s, the Chinese government launched a drive to replenish dwindling blood-bank supplies and paid donors for their plasma. For the impoverished farmers, it was an easy way to supplement their income. "When I asked if they donated blood, many said yes, many, many times--30, 40, sometimes 100 to 200 times," Gui recalls. Tragically, the needles used--some in the hands of entrepreneurial middlemen known locally as "blood heads"--were not always sterile. All it would need for the virus to take hold...
...home page on the World Wide Web. Mexico's Zapatistas, Peru's Shining Path and Afghanistan's Taliban also boast Internet sites maintained by supporters. For today's guerrilla, the modem offers the best means to disseminate communiques, show off a pictorial gallery of brothers-in-arms--and even replenish the war chest by selling T shirts, videos and books...
...find yourself craving the ingredients of Burton’s fantasy world—from the store signs to the scenery—as much as Wonka’s chocolate river, which looks disturbingly real. You may be forced to run to the concession stand to replenish your SnoCaps...
...living. I have to remove myself and distance myself and start to think in a musical frame of mind." He and his band, the Boomtown Rats, have just completed a mini-tour of Italy. Geldof will use his share of the proceeds to pay off some accumulated debts and replenish savings depleted by his worldwide drumbeating. "We don't take any administrative costs on Band Aid and Live Aid," he reminds everyone. "My phone bill is in the thousands...