Word: teas
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...take something that seemed impenetrable and make such elegant sense of it that readers wonder why they never saw order in all that chaos before. Malcolm Gladwell did it for snap decision making. Jared Diamond did it for the rise of civilizations. Now Lynne O'Donnell, with High Tea in Mosul, does it for sniper fire and kidnapping threats. Four years into the war in Iraq, she captures with stark simplicity what it's like to live with ceaseless fear and violence...
...High Tea in Mosul follows two Englishwomen, longtime friends Pauline (a pseudonym) and Margaret (her real name), who married Iraqi students they met in England and moved in the 1970s to the ancient northern Iraqi city of Mosul. In 2003 they met the author - an Australian then covering the war for the Irish Times - shortly after coalition troops freed the city. O'Donnell's book is a brief, devastating account of how these women's lives change over three increasingly grim decades in their adopted country...
...didn’t get a great sense from Harvard about what being a writer would be like. My parents were Russian immigrants so I knew what a Russian writer would be like and how a Russian writer lives, which is sort of like you sit around and drink tea with your friends and occasionally you write something...
...handful of references to Hillary Clinton as “Satan” and “that buck-toothed witch” (epithets people across the country invoke daily for no reward at all) to win him 1.6 million listeners a week and the sponsorship from Bigelow Tea...
...Society’s trademark party, “Fiesta Mondiale,” each spring. “My sort of leadership perception was that it should be really social,” outgoing Woodbridge President Karolis Balciunas ’08 says. “[Woodbridge] had tea parties that were a huge success.” Based on the size of the event’s Facebook.com page, Balciunas estimates attendance at one at 300 students.But that sort of attendance isn’t achieved with internationals alone. “We get Americans to come...