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...Kapuscinski's writings, especially those on his beloved Africa, have inspired torrents of objections and corrections. His first best seller, The Emperor - an impressionistic 1978 account of the last days of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie - contains dozens of factual errors and improbable characters, like the former palace employee whose sole job for 10 years was to use a satin cloth to wipe urine from the shoes of visiting dignitaries set upon by the emperor...
...easy to replace them. Meatpacking is a hard job at any salary. There's plenty of new technology in the meatpacking industry, but no machine has yet been invented to take over some of the toughest positions, like the role of gut snatcher, whose sole job is to tug the offal out of each freshly killed hog that comes down the line...
...captain Gideon Valkin ended his season and his career with 11 straight wins, earning Harvard’s sole nomination for the NCAA Sportsmanship Award...
...been really solid,” Brand said. “They feed off of each other’s enthusiasm, they’re very pumped for each match, they help each other.” In the women’s saber, junior Alexa Weingarden was the sole fencer to make nationals, although co-captain Samantha Parker fell just short of an at-large bid. Weingarden finished 11th in the competition and became an All-American for the first time. The women lost just twice all season in head-to-head team meets but were not able...
...even the notion that al-Qaeda will be our sole security risk in maintaining bases in Iraq is, to put it mildly, wishful thinking. What of Moqtada al Sadr and his Shi'ite radicals, who insist on the U.S. leaving lock, stock and barrel? And what of Iran, which apparently continues to aid and abet both Shi'ite and Sunni insurgent groups with IEDS and other weapons...