Word: riche
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...wasn't really, of course. The U.S. is too big, too rich, too well-armed to be anyone's equal. But being big and rich and well-armed does not make you a leader. Followers make you that, and the loyalty of followers has to be earned by more than a great speech and an inspiring life story. If Obama did not know it before (though one suspects he always did), he surely knows it now: it was easy being a celebrity; it's tough being a President...
...reveals the lines of connection - some hidden, some potential, some accidental - between these lives and gives each of them vast, rich interiorities, news reaches Muddy River of Beijing's Democracy Wall movement (in which reformists posted calls for political change on a wall in the city center). It is followed by more shocking news: just before her execution, Shan's kidneys had been harvested for an influential Communist Party official who needed them. A fledgling protest haltingly tries to gather momentum in Muddy River - but when the democratic movement in Beijing is suppressed, Muddy River's hopes of change...
ever meet. I look forward to becoming immersed in Harvard's rich...
...Russia-Ukraine gas battle in January that left people in some E.U. countries freezing and factories idle. Currently, the E.U. gets more than 40% of its gas imports from just one company: Russia's giant Gazprom. In addition, almost all the gas that comes to Europe from the resource-rich Caspian flows through Gazprom's pipelines. Yet the long-planned Nabucco pipeline - designed to transport Azerbaijani, Turkmen and, maybe one day, Iranian and Iraqi gas to the E.U. through Turkey - is stuck at the planning stage...
...These are the moments when Bachmann’s personal experiences of the war and his mental trauma become beautiful and disturbing without dwelling on the historical, social, or political context. While the latter half of the novel lacks the imagination of the former, it is rich in historical anecdotes, not only about the Germans and Nazis, but also the foreigners who worked alongside them, and what they thought about the war. As Bachmann’s mental state deteriorates, so does the language of novel, and by the end, Lind mires his characters in a bog of metaphors...