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...Mikado” is not particularly deep or meaningful, but it is highly enjoyable and a welcome dose of sheer silly fun. It’s a perfect antidote for cold weather and late-semester papers...
During his firstsix monthsin office, French President Nicolas Sarkozy thrilled audiences at home and abroad with his kinetic vision for France. He stared down railworker unions, brokered a huge trade deal with China and generally signaled that he could redefine his country through sheer willpower alone. But as riots that broke out Nov. 25 north of Paris reminded us, the Sarkozy show isn't playing well with a crucial audience: residents of the banlieues, or France's impoverished suburbs...
...thing that drew me to it immediately was its sheer diversity—its willingness to take on any subject, including things that weren’t on the news,” says Murphy, the transitional editor. “Sure, there was always great journalism, but there was great criticism too, and articles about science, pop culture, religion. And oddball articles that were just plain...
Anxiously I ponder the ways I might reduce my shoe size. I have seriously considered banning Christmas gifts this year to avoid the senseless consumption of sheer stuff, but I don't want my kid to say she saw Mommy dissing Santa Claus. I could theoretically ride a bicycle to work, but I am concerned that somewhere along the eight miles of highway, I will have a seizure. I have looked into yurts, but they are not a popular housing alternative in New Jersey...
...Bolton's outspoken policy views have long been familiar, but what's most interesting about his new book is the sheer enthusiasm with which he has adopted the mantle of the most vocal neoconservative critic of the Bush Administration's foreign policy, only months after resigning from the Bush team when the Senate for the second time refused to confirm his nomination to the U.N. post...