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...extremamente unhappy-ah.”Felicity looked up at him, impressed by his insight. “Such wisdom, Prince!” she cooed. “Could you perhaps advise me what I ought to have for luncheon?”Ollie raised an aristocratic eyebrow and looked at the Viscountess with an evaluating eye.“Signiora, my impression of your character informsa me that you cannot enjoy spaghetti.”“Of course not!” Felicity said. “It’s always so...limp...
...other convention in Minneapolis had its own eyebrow-raising moments. You may think equating opposition to a war with some fanciful will to surrender is a trick so old it must be collecting dust away from the top levels of American politics. If so, Senator Lindsey Graham proved you wrong, when he announced: “Barack Obama’s campaign is built around us losing in Iraq.” It may be a red-meat line to the base, but this is certainly not a fact...
...Cheney did that thing he does with one raised eyebrow, a smile on just the left side of his face...
...Parliament, verbal exchanges frequently dissolved into shouting matches. Speeches by Singh and Rahul Gandhi, scion of India's most storied political family, were interrupted by incessant heckling. Prior to the debate, frantic lobbying for votes by numerous political organizations, including opposition parties trying to unseat Singh, produced some eyebrow-raising compromises, the details of which were widely publicized. Six members of India's Parliament, including two convicted of murder while in office, were furloughed from prison so they could cast votes (while questionable, this is not illegal). The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, a small central Indian political party, reportedly threw...
...ASEAN's nine other members not to at least arch an eyebrow when Burma signed the charter is nothing short of willful ignorance. Yes, ASEAN did speak forcefully on July 20 when Singaporean Foreign Minister George Yeo said the bloc's members felt "deep disappointment" that Burma in May prolonged the detention of opposition figurehead and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But any mention of that negative emotion was excised from the formal communiqué issued by ASEAN the following day. And an initial flurry of excitement caused by Yeo when he said that his Burmese counterpart had told...