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...expected to keep up with the race—let alone go through it twice—if the motive behind the running remains so unclear? Kasper is dedicated to saving KlaraMaria yet is unable to explain why. With every escalating sacrifice he makes on his tortuous quest, we grow ever more exasperated. “It’s important to exit on a high note,” Kasper says. If only Høeg had followed his advice rather than leaving us hoping for the end 100 pages before it actually comes. Circus-clown Kasper Krone provides...
...this eventually gave rise to the current array of student-faculty committees, a system so tortuous that one can’t help but be awed into submission by its sheer complexity...
...India has one of the most fragmented produce-supply chains on the planet. Industry experts estimate more than 30% of all fresh produce is lost or spoils before it reaches the market. On average, goods pass through six or seven middlemen before a consumer can buy it, resulting in tortuous journeys, big markups and poor quality. Replacing that system requires not just building a modern, efficient network but adapting it to Indian conditions...
...proverbial riot act. "The greater part must be more industrious or starve," Smith decreed. "He that will not work, shall not eat." Not too surprisingly, productivity soared. Anglo-American relations played to a draw. Strains were briefly managed, tensions largely contained. What followed, though, was a long and tortuous series of missed opportunities, conflict and outright betrayal that set Smith and Powhatan on a collision course. When the old chief got word that Smith had sacked yet another village and made off with half its provisions on the eve of a harsh winter, he summoned the white...
Lilac quit the NSC at the end of 1983 to work as a consultant for Prince Bandar, who is the Saudi Ambassador to Washington. Tyson left in March 1983 to work for Khashoggi. The tortuous trail left by both North and Secord, now a retired Air Force general, touches virtually every mysterious point of action in the entire Iran-contra affair...