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...home, riding the subway, I crashed. An older lady in orthopedic shoes got in a couple of stops down. I stared at her, contemplating her attire. A crucifix, a habit… I didn’t realize she was a servant of God until the girl across from me offered her a seat. The fear of God struck me. Not only would I die from the illegal toxins in the Power Horse, hell awaited me because I didn’t give up my seat...
Imposing order on the rival gunmen of Hamas and Fatah would have been a tall order for a leader far stronger than Palestinian Interior Minister Hani Kawasmeh. Kawasmeh, a career civil servant rather than a tough-guy commander of either of the two main Palestinian factions, was appointed to the position as a compromise candidate after Hamas and Fatah brokered their unity government in Mecca earlier this year. And it came as no surprise when he announced his resignation on Monday, amid a fierce resurgence of fighting between the two camps that has claimed at least eight lives since Sunday...
...though Baroness Morris says her frustration was tempered with gratitude: "You're thinking, 'Thank God he runs the economy so well so we have this money to spend.'" Others have proved less forgiving. Former Cabinet colleague Charles Clarke branded Brown a "control freak," while Lord Turnbull, a top civil servant, remarked of his management style at the Treasury: "You cannot help but admire the sheer Stalinist ruthlessness of it all." Within eight months of Blair's first victory, a source from within 10 Downing Street famously skewered Brown by diagnosing him as "psychologically flawed...
...Outback landscape of her childhood with the transported English culture of her schooling-"all this life, all this huge unelaborated life, told her there was more on heaven and earth than was dreamt of by Mister Shakespeare." Neglected by her self-absorbed parents, Perdita befriends the family's Aboriginal servant Mary and a different education begins. Perdita learns to read "the chevron sand-lines of lizards... The ripples of departed snakes, the scroll shapes and mounds and pathways of bush tucker-all that had been inscribed there before them, in a hidden language never noticed, became suddenly visible." Mary...
...loves Millamant (Olga Zhulina ’09), whose aunt is Lady Wishfort (Alison H. Rich ’09). Wishfort has to be married before she will give her blessing (and her fortune) to the couple, so Mirabell decides to have an already-married servant pretend to be a lord and court...