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...course, I could not resist picking up the latest Michael Connelly novel, “Echo Park,” released two weeks ago. I see two things: the name “Harry Bosch,” Los Angeles police detective, inside the jacket, and the properly stern face of Connelly on the back. Looks like a must-read...
...hunt the larger truths because we can't help it, especially within sight of a critical election, when pundits and pollsters have to reach general conclusions about countless specific doubts and hopes. But America won't sit still to have her portrait painted. Our politics especially resist reduction. One reason lawmakers have to draw such twisted districts to save their seats is that we are so much more purple than they'd like, a tangle of red suburbs of blue cities and blue counties in red states. That mischievous map of a huge central red sea cupped by blue parentheses...
...better finishing team,” Murphy said. “We need to improve our pass defense, we need to improve our consistency. Right now I think we have a lot more room for improvement than I would like.”But even Murphy could not resist comparing certain elements of the 2006 Crimson to some of his great teams of the past.“This is probably the most tackles for loss we’ve had at this stage in the game since we’ve been here, or maybe since...
...most importantly - health workers and volunteers in tiny, remote villages. The country has also developed a system to track outbreaks so that doctors and scientists can work to prevent repeats. That's in contrast to most of Africa and to neighboring Burma, Cambodia and Laos, which Wandee says resist public counts of diarrhea cases lest they put off foreign investors and tourists. "If the governments do their job and allow ngos to reach down to the community level," Wandee says, "we could save more people. We could prevent 2 million deaths a year if we could reach...
Will Columbia, under the energizing leadership of Norries Wilson, resist the temptation to start sucking again...