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...grade-school education, but he had an early grasp of issues that would be crucial to America's future, such as westward expansion and the vexing matter of slavery. He eventually concluded that slavery must be abolished, though his own slaves were freed only after his death. He also understood precisely what his role in the new nation should be. Washington emerged from the War of Independence as a kind of god. Like Caesar before him and Napoleon after, he might easily have parlayed military glory into imperial power. But he performed his greatest service to his country by refusing...
That he did. The resulting effort, My Dark Places, is a heartfelt, gut-wrenching 427 pages of coming to terms. “I understood that I would learn things about my mother, and I learned great things about my mother…and myself,” Ellroy said...
...dislike both Yale and Jeter.” Nevertheless, the underlying message is clear: sucking and swallowing, or performing oral sex on men, is a degrading act, and to do so is synonymous with inferiority. This shirt is “funny” only because it is understood that to be accused of being gay, to be accused of being womanly, is to be shamed...
...brutality of the theater’s empty seats is perhaps understood only by those who had seen it in its heyday, like Tsai, and it is to get toward that spirit that he cites oldies music and films like Dragon Inn throughout his film. The original Dragon Inn was a wuxia pian (martial arts movies) 1966 bestseller in Chinese, which opened the door to a new wuxia genre with its simple melodies and lyrical setting in the old inn in contrast to the spectacular clamor of those which came before...
...report, former officials say they "heard him say or inferred" that he "intended to resume" developing his chemical- and nuclear-weapon capability--though biological warfare no longer interested him--once sanctions were lifted. The regime had "no formal written strategy or plan" to do so, but lieutenants say they "understood" that was his goal "from their long association with Saddam and his infrequent, but firm, verbal comments to them...