Word: samson
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...Milton makes even smart people feel stupid. Not by accident, either. He is probably the most unrelentingly aggressive poet in English. When Samson says, "My heels are fettered, but my fist is free," he displays the best and worst of Milton. The best is Milton's unsurpassed technical command of English: the double contrast of "heels ... fettered" against "fist ... free"; the long vowel in "heels" echoed by "free"; the alliteration of "fettered ... fist ? free"; the combination of all three effects in the verse-ending stressed monosyllable "free," so ironically spoken by a blind slave in chains, but also...
...says. “Everything is bigger and louder and has more ribbons.” Last year’s adaptation of “A Tale of Two Cities” replaced the guillotine with barber’s scissors, echoing the story of Samson and using hair as a symbol of the French aristocracy. In the group’s 2002 production of the Shakespeare classic “Julius Caesar,” the title character died of a paper cut. The cast, recruited through the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s Common Casting, began...
...issue is lack of transparency in the oil sector," says South Sudan's Information Minister Samson Kwaje. Kwaje says that the government of south Sudan feels it is being "cheated" by Khartoum due to its lack of representation in both the energy and finance ministries. South Sudanese officials say that they are not involved in either the production or marketing of the oil, much less the calculation of how much their share of the petroleum pie should be. (Oil accounts for 95% of Juba's income.) Equally problematic is the ownership of Abyei, an oil-rich region caught between...
...Coyle and others argue that the MDA's work-in-progress attitude towards its systems is a sign that the program is in over its head. "With massive projects you're always going to have something not quite right," acknowledges Victoria Samson, a research analyst at CDI. But, she says, the extent of the upgrades and repairs that SBX and a few other MDA systems have required are signs of an agency that is buying time to deliver weapons that the White House has asked for but may not yet be realistic. "It's giving [the program] a blank check...
...violence of 2006, although the resolution was never signed into law by Ramos-Horta. Fretilin's political opponents accuse the party of fomenting violence to achieve their political ends, but Fretilin denies the claims, conceding only that it struggles to control some of its angry supporters. NGO head Samson is unconvinced. "They are worried about what the new government will do," he says. "They are worried that there will be an audit going back five years." It is a sad measure of East Timor's misery that a nation founded on so much promise should so soon be uneasy about...