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...Goat doesn’t taste very good, so we use lamb, but you can’t change the word to ‘lamb roast,’” said archaeology...
...Obviously this is an internal division among Muslims. The case of Iraq is a particularly important one because Iraq is a country that has a Shi'ite majority but a Sunni domination. I would borrow a word from the Irish history to describe it and say it's the "Shi'ite Ascendancy." Since the days of the medieval Caliphate, the Sunnis remained the ruling group. They monopolized all of the positions of power and authority. Now, for the first time, the Shi'ite has access to power as they must inevitably in any real democracy, and so far its going...
...legislature (he didn't mention, though, that the legislature won't be in session to do that until next January). And he explained that seven other witnesses, who have said through lawyers that they too will not appear, weren't given subpoenas because the investigator had relied on the word of assistant attorney general Michael Barnhill that they would testify without a subpoena. That cooperation was "abrogated," said French, who called the investigator's reliance on an informal agreement "regrettable...
...cellar. I prepared myself for anything by bidding adieu to pride, English, and unscarred forearms. When I arrived early one August afternoon, the kitchen staff was having their family meal before the lunch rush and invited me to sit with them. I couldn’t understand a word that was flying back and forth across the table; two months away from classes had erased any knowledge of Italian. The staff at least seemed nice, and young, and not big enough to eat me. “Have you ever worked in a professional kitchen before...
...dream of a Harvard education, and quite a few try to get a leg up by attending an elite private high school. If, however, they knew that a public-school education would offer a better opportunity, they would be likelier to remain engaged in the state system. A simple word from Harvard and similar institutions could enact such a reversal of fortunes...