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Michelle Obama is tall, smart, funny, relaxed and basically so glowy and poised - if she's attractive in pictures, she's flat-out gorgeous in person - that it almost seems as if she already is the First Lady...
...grandfather's occupation?" or "Who is your favorite historical person?" The questions for a Citibank MasterCard account are even odder, bordering on the absurd: "Who was your archrival growing up?" "If you needed a new first name, what would it be?" and "If you could control your height, how tall would you be?" Even if a person can answer those questions, there's no guarantee the answer will be the same the next time around. (One Citibank query, for example, is "Which foreign country would you like to visit?" But the answer might well change a year later, after...
...Among the migrants is Deeti, a resolute and resourceful peasant woman who flouts conventions of caste and presciently foretells the coming of the tall-masted ship that will reshape her destiny. Sitting in his Kolkata home, Ghosh describes her to TIME as the book's "mainsail, its guiding energy." But while Deeti drives a story of considerable scope, she's not alone. Ghosh has a talent - revealed not only in this novel but previous ones - for bringing to life through his characters worlds that have been long forgotten. We meet, among others, a freed American slave, an impeccably-mannered Bengali...
...driven in a carriage. So Roxanna followed Felicity on foot to the train station. Every time a horseman passed them, Felicity had shivered uncontrollably.Now they had spent two months already in the palatial villa which Roxanna could see rising into view up the road, the rows of tall cypresses framing bright walls. Two months, and no return date set. Roxanna wondered, blushing even at the thought, if Felicity was trying to relive her honeymoon in Florence. Certainly the Viscount and the Viscountess shared the same bed every night. Yet their room seemed oddly quiet, and when Roxanna brought Felicity...
...addition, at a lecture given to the nurses working at Beth Israel, Fischer allegedly expressed his preference for male residents, stating that they should be “tall, light skinned, western taught American...