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...comforting to think this. Especially if you're sort of disenfranchised, or seem disconnected with your family or your city or your school or whatever, you know we all seek reference points, some kind of extended family...
...solace the characters seek in one another slowly blurs into something deeper, obscuring the lines between lust and love. De Bernières uses their emotional confusion to comment on the power of storytelling, and its effects on the storyteller. Roza begins to worry that Chris will lose interest in her, so her stories grow ever more fanciful: in one, she gains passage on a ship by seducing the captain with her cooking. It's a tension that reflects De Bernières' friendship with the real Roza, who vanished from his life three decades ago: "Even today...
Today, Erez operates in a political twilight zone. Hamas and Israel seek each other's destruction, and the devastated landscape of blasted-out buildings and shell craters around Erez bears the scars of this conflict. As one Erez security official says: "We're the last line of defense against the suicide bomber coming into Israel...
...four states that are objecting the most, however, are South Carolina, Montana, New Hampshire and Maine. The four have thus far ignored a March 31 deadline to seek an extension that would technically put them in compliance with the law for up to two years. If they fail to meet the deadline, that means starting May 11 their citizens would not be allowed to use identification from those states to board aircraft or enter government buildings. If they lack any other acceptable ID, they would be subjected to additional security screening that would make travel an extra hassle...
Then there's the question of all the prodigious Flori-dough. Prominent Florida Democratic donors and fund raisers are now threatening to withhold or seek the return of hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars from the national party if at least some of the state's delegates are not reinstated...