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Birth and circumstances drove Greene to a life on the edge. Congenitally unhappy with what he later called his manic-depressive self, he found himself a double agent at a tender age, a student at the Berkhamsted School, where his father reigned as headmaster. Naturally, his classmates made his life miserable, and Greene sought retreat in voracious reading. But the drama served up by his favorite authors (among them John Buchan and Joseph Conrad) reminded Greene that he had been born at an unpropitious time. "We were," he wrote, "a generation brought up on adventure stories who had missed...
...girl, what mattered after delivering the baby was cloaking her latest humiliation in a thin veil of dignity. On the way to school, she reportedly told a friend, "There's been a rumor that I'm pregnant, but I'm not," and invited the girl to feel her tender stomach. "She refused to admit that she had given birth once she lost the baby," a friend of the family said. "It was as if she could not comprehend it." Her teachers didn't help: though she had faithfully attended classes, they say they never realized she was pregnant...
...body. She knows what happened to her mind. She knows what happened to her soul. She knows it HURT. And it is inexcusable that someone, for whatever reason, thought it was okay to hurt her that way. It is also inexcusable and disrespectful to scratch up her tender, healing wounds by attempting to rewrite her life. Whatever you say cannot undo the crime which occurred. An attempt to understand her story would have been a fine and admirable thing. An attempt to obliterate it is a crime in itself...
...thing, it's no Nixon. That work contained big, powerful set pieces: the Nixons' arrival in Peking aboard the Spirit of '76; the spellbinding banquet scene; a hallucinatory ballet; a tender aria for Pat and a hair raiser for Madame Mao. Instead, the new work takes its cue from Nixon's third act, a contemplative series of interlocking monologues that stripped the statesmen of their blue suits and Mao jackets and revealed them for the tired, nervous and scared human beings they were...
Over the next two months, new gold cordobas worth 5 million old cordobas, or 20 cents each, will replace the piggies as legal paper tender. Chamorro publicly set fire to a small mountain of worn-out cordobas that had already been exchanged, then went shopping at a Managua supermarket armed with a supply of the new currency...