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...Right Honourable Abraham" or "Noah, Esquire." Those observations had not endeared him to the ruling elites of America or Britain any more than his humble origins did. He did not fit into the new American aristocracy and he had never fit into the old British aristocracy, but somehow he was entirely at home with the French aristocracy, which--it paid to be original, noted one of his successors--was entirely at home with him. In France he was cultivated, cosseted, lionized by dukes, counts and princes, for which John Adams could no more forgive him than he could accept Franklin...
...asked Adam later why he hadn’t winked or somehow subtly let Andrew knew...
...help?" But each morning he is reminded of why he is here. The muezzin's first call to prayer rings out at 4 a.m. And pray Josh does. "I pray for the people responding," he says. "I pray that as they go to mosque, Jesus would somehow be revealed to them. I pray against that call--that it would not affect their souls." He prays he may help lift "this totally oppressive spiritual atmosphere...
...trying to understand why Rowling's books are the most popular children's series ever written. It is hard not to believe in magic when you consider what she has done. Through her books, she speaks to kids in Milan and Morocco and Minnesota, and those conversations too are somehow private, even though they are conducted in 200 countries, in 55 languages, in Braille, in 200 million volumes. Children buy her books with their own money. They wear out flashlights reading them after lights-out. Kids with a fear of fat books and dyslexic kids who have never finished...
...their own right, describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard of his own pride). The taut Program is set in a simulacrum of feudal Japan; Detective Story somehow turns the Wachowskis' vision into film noir, complete with fog, fedoras?and Trinity in (what else?) tight, black leather...