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...they are. My girlfriend recently saw an official map of her hometown?Masaya, Nicaragua?and discovered that the street where she had grown up in fact has a name: Calle Palo Blanco. But if you tell a taxi driver "Calle Palo Blanco," all you will get is a blank stare. So we still give the more common address ("From the San Jeronimo Shell Station, 2 1/2 blocks down"). And off we go without further question...
...wealth of intelligence and ability to analyze it been better. And yet never before has the military looked and acted less like a fighting force than does today. "The problems that we have to worry about now - making sure the volunteers posted at the girls' high school don't stare at the young ladies - are a lot different from when we first arrived," says Cook...
...Ignatius wrote in "A Tsar is Born" that "No one is born with a stare like Vladimir Putin's." But I noticed that the class photo accompanying the story showed Putin as a youth of 14 with eyes devoid of emotion. Putin may not have been born with an emotionless stare, but he certainly developed it early. Audrey Thomas, Tottenham, Canada...
...personal as well as political turmoils that were far more intense than most of us can imagine. Over the years, on those rare occasions when we?d meet and reminisce, I?d notice how the features of her face had hardened a bit, as had the intensity of her stare when she talked to you. But she never lost the warmth in that very big smile...
...After all the game's only just begun, there's not too much point speculating at this stage," I say in Mandarin. At which point a suited business woman who had been concentrating on her PSP pauses her game and fixes me with an intense stare. I feel a frisson of excitement but look away first."Dog farts! This guy's shifty. He's spoken for three minutes without saying a thing. Keep an eye on him." I gulp, she has obviously mistaken my occasional blinking (caused, I protest, by tiredness) for a sign of guilt...