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...This transcendent moment erased two days in which Bush blinked his way through TelePrompTered remarks like a schoolboy reciting his lessons. In one of those staged events that are designed to look candid but fail utterly, he paced behind his desk during a photo-op phone call with Mayor Rudy Giuliani, accepting the mayor's invitation to tour his city's wreckage. Bush looked like a nervous teenager making weekend plans, especially in contrast to Giuliani, who was magnificent during New York City's darkest hour. (He had worn a New York fire department cap, and he deserved to wear...
Alas, Bannon's schoolboy interest in procuring beer was his eventual undoing. Weeks later, he ran afoul of Andover's zero-tolerance alcohol ban and was booted out of the school. (Interestingly, Vanity Fair reports that Tweeds' brother Jeb, busted for alcohol a few years later, was permitted to stay on. Go figure.) Bannon may not have left Andover with a diploma, but he didn't leave empty handed: he had his ID. Unbowed by his first run-in with authority, he set out to dupe barkeeps across the country...
...schoolboy of 12, Narayan took part in a pro-independence march in the city of Madras. His uncle rebuked him, and told him he was not to take part in politics; all governments were wicked. The story is in Narayan's autobiography, My Days. And, while the British ruled, Narayan never wrote about the independence movement. Waiting for the Mahatma appeared only in 1955. I do not hold this against him. He might have been looking for peace, but Malgudi was also a delicate literary creation. Much depended on the notion of the timelessness of the petty life there...
...help it can get. During Milosevic's rule, hundreds of thousands of bright, gifted young Serbs fled the war and the poverty to start a new life somewhere else. Djelic is one of the few who has come back. Though he looks a bit like an overgrown schoolboy in a business suit, he has had a brilliant career in France and the United States. After graduating as a top student from France's élite Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he collected two M.B.A.s from Harvard and a third from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales...
...hook up but also to find out about whatever may titillate or tantalize them. There is, it seems, a chat room for anything and everyone. Spouses seeking greater satisfaction, singles who don't want to wait until marriage, cohabitors, minority groups such as gays, lesbians, spankers, even the pimply schoolboy wondering if autoerotism is ruining his complexion - in today's Asia, there's never been a better time for any of these groups to find answers, action ... and fulfillment...