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...titnote": "* Work. ** Fucking.") His Berlin affair with German hottie Renate H?tte (later known, in Russ's "Mudhoney," as Rena Horton) is recalled as an evening of "succulent schlemmers and Gatling-gun Gesundheits!" Limning an energetic tryst with one Mrs. Janet Buxton, he apostrophizes: "Oh, what hath headboards and Hemingway wrought!" (I give up: what hath pine and Papa wrought?) And in a reverie on his double hernia, Meyer writes: "Cause: hunkeringly / horizontal / hyper-activity about / atop ?Castle on Mulholland's' slick-sick sheets (lacking tooth)." Translation into English - anyone? Anyone...
However, O’Brien’s main pitch is her record of reform as a “strong, independent leader” as state treasurer. Before O’Brien took on her post, the state treasury was wrought with insider corruption...
Amid the wreckage that the suicide bombers have wrought, to speak of moral equivalence between the combatants is to enter the madhouse. There is no “cycle of violence” here, in which all parties are guilty. There are Palestinian attempts to slaughter Israeli civilians, and Israeli attempts to capture and kill those responsible for the atrocities —which includes, of course, Arafat himself, whose government gives aid and comfort to the men and women tearing gaping wounds in the world with their bodies and their bombs...
...investigative journalist should be "given" to the Chechens. The journalist was later found dead. It did not have to be this way. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the leaders of the new Ukrainian state had plenty to worry about. Russian subversion, for example, or the ecological damage wrought on their land by the Kremlin's industrial policies. But at least the country was economically and culturally viable, they said. They were overly optimistic. Ukraine's first 10 years of independence have turned out to be a lost decade and the history of those years, in the words...
...police, who discovered a large quantity of an unknown powder. The FSB later claimed that they had been conducting an exercise, and that the powder was sugar, yet an explosives specialist from the city was quoted as saying that it was in fact hexogen, the substance that had wrought such horrible damage in Moscow and Volgodonsk. If the bombing was done by the FSB, Berezovsky said, Putin must have known. Until March of that year, he had been chairman of the FSB, and then combined this with a position in the Security Council, which oversees security and defense...