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...vice president of Venezuela's mining chamber: "He knows foreign investment is the only way Venezuela can boost its production and increase its reserves." While Chávez's September speech may have scared the mother lode out of mining execs, many believe it was meant more to appease the restless miners than to presage the ouster of the foreigners...
...when they sign on to tend a herd of sheep on the eponymous peak, which director Ang Lee locates high in ravishing Marlboro Country. Ennis is a slow-drawling man's man, a simple soul content to live out a life of low-paying odd jobs. Jack is more restless--a not very successful rodeo rider when the spirit moves him but also a man for other, upwardly mobile opportunities. He's the one who initiates their first sexual encounter, although in the act itself he plays the passive role while Ennis is the aggressor. On the other hand...
...says. For Rousseau and many other obsessively researched historical figures, new facts are unlikely ever to come to light; but this doesn’t deter Damrosch. The best biographies, he says, are “reinterpretations.”So is “Jean-Jacuqes Rousseau: Restless Genius” a groundbreaking, must-read reinterpretation? If anything it reinterprets Rousseau’s character, though perhaps “anti-interpretation” describes the biography more accurately. Damrosch’s method is to lay out, to demonstrate. The authorial voice vanishes in the elegant telling...
...loose.”* * *On her way to 2,000 points in the competitive D.C. Independent School circuit, Jessica Holsey didn’t need to learn much. From her earliest moments on a basketball court, Holsey found the requisite basketball skills within herself. Her father, Ron, is a restless athlete in his own right. He played basketball and football in high school, and still entertains himself with golf—“all the time now,” she says, exasperated.“He basically taught me most of what I know...
...side are the protester-arsonists, many if not most of them Muslim, whom the Interior Minister called racaille (rabble)--young, restless, violent, vibrant, angry, jobless, envious and fecund. And on the other side is an aged and exhausted civilization, the hollowed-out core of European Christendom, static, aging, contented, coddled, passive and literally without faith. Who would you think will...