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...little bit stiff at first, just trying to loosen up and get into the game,” Weiss said. “It was great. They got the power play there—got some shots. After the first one I warmed up and I felt fine...
...hungry, is gross inequality: 20% of the population receive 70% of the nation's income, while 3% hold almost two-thirds of its almost half a billion hectares of arable land. Lula is careful not to declare a soak-the-rich crusade, and his hesitancy to come out for stiff progressive taxation makes his party's left wing crazy. And it's too soon to tell whether his four-year, $1.5 billion Zero Hunger program will be enough to make good on his promise to the poor. It is his presidency's one indulged, untouchable priority. He has made...
...liberally. In Aristophanes’ comedy “Acharnians,” the protagonist Dikaiopolis holds a religious procession with a model phallus and sings a bawdy song called the phallikon in Greek. He instructs his slave to hold a “phallus-pole” up stiff and straight and sings an ode to the “midnight rambler and carouser.” The phallus procession was a celebration of a peace treaty that Dikaiopolis had personally arranged with the enemy Spartans. In “Lysistrata,” another comedy by Aristophanes...
...This partnership portends a stiff challenge to Chen come 2004. His DPP has never polled more than half the votes in a national election, and his term has been marked by an anemic economy, record unemployment, and an ineffectual legislature. Still, he has solid support in certain quarters, especially the south. What's more, Lien is an uninspiring campaigner and neither opposition party has yet articulated a compelling vision for Taiwan. Soong, of course, could still break off his engagement to Lien. But for now, the man who'd like to be king has once again positioned himself to play...
There are two great things about reviewing a romance novel. One is that you don't have to be worried about giving away the ending. Even though Susannah Ballister is stubborn and not conventionally pretty and the Earl of Renminster is stiff and pompous, I will tell you right now: they hook up. Here's the other great thing about reviewing romance novels: people actually read them...