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...that is perhaps asking too much, One of this terrible tale's heroines is an American woman named Minnie Vautrin, headmistress of a missionary college for young women, a ferocious defender of the "Safety Zone," compassionate defender of its young women. She survived, went home and, a year to the day after leaving China, committed suicide. Eerily, Iris Chang, having rescued this narrative from oblivion, also committed suicide - perhaps because her book contains images that could never be erased from her consciousness. There are some stories that, if we become too intimate with them, have the power to destroy...
...Huckabee's convincing victory was as if Bain Capital had lost a takeover bid to George Bailey. For many at Romney's somewhat subdued "victory party," the idea that such a rational and well-researched plan could be upset by, as one woman put it, "a country sleaze" simply did not compute. Mitt Romney's concession was just being announced on CNN as precinct captains shook their heads. Some exclaimed, in the same polite sub-profanities that Romney might use: "Bull!" "Darn!" Somewhere, perhaps, even, "H-E-double hockey sticks!" Told that Fox News had just made a similar announcement...
...Bhutto’s proudest accomplishments was breaking through the “glass ceiling” as a woman in a Muslim society, she told The Crimson in 1998. Bhutto became the first female prime minister of Pakistan—and of any Islamic country—in 1988 at the age of 35, a position she would hold twice...
...year-old woman, wearing her college colors, said she personally knew each of the film’s protagonists. “They were pretty much the same in real life,” she said...
...signs that his cool competence may help carry him past the surging Huckabee. When, taking a break from Bowl games, partygoers tick off their reasons for supporting him, it is a shopping list, not an argument: "He'll secure the border, fight terrorism and protect family values," says a woman in a fuzzy purple sweater in Ankley. In general, they do not talk about how they feel about Romney at all. There is none of the teeny-bopper swooning that erupts in Obama's wake, or the easy laughter Huckabee can summon with a drawling punchline. Instead, there are spreadsheets...