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Lodge 2 may be too good to be true; New York is anomalous in so many ways. But it's a thought worth playing with. Are you attracted to club chairs and Montecristos but find the swingers' scene a bit weak on moral discourse? Are you tempted by the camaraderie of Promise Keepers but put off by the catharsis? If one must dabble in male-only culture, why not try something with a pedigree and an established philanthropic track record? Think of it as an experiment: Can the secret handshake ever be made hip again...
...astonishingly) without President Clinton's knowledge, to dispatching 20,000 troops if called on--not an attractive option on the eve of a presidential campaign. Holbrooke's mission was to come up with a more acceptable course. His aim--nothing less than "a comprehensive peace agreement, not another weak, meaningless set of general principles that would be forgotten or ignored as soon as the conference adjourned"--was certainly ambitious. He writes, "I had wanted to test myself against the most difficult negotiations in the world." He got his wish...
...influenza." All the while, Hex and Billie are haunted by the infrequent but always searingly memorable references to Hex's dad, long-deceased ex-nuclear scientist. Allen Raitcliffe. Yet somehow the decisions and bizarre events of the evening seem not at all forced or sudden (until the rather weak ending); the Raitcliffe's story seems predestined, foreordained, and the characters are merely performing their inevitable actions according to plan even when they act illogically...
...months passed, the treatments became more intense. My mother, once a healthy woman, became weak and frail. Her frame, always petite, became even smaller in the hospital bed. Her lustrous black hair fell out in clumps, revealing her smooth brown head. Even though she tried to remain optimistic, her eyes became long...
...professor also called the tribunal's case "weak" and left open the possibility that he would serve on Karadzic's legal team "if he were to surrender to the authorities and call...