Word: allowed
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...south Lebanon untenable for Israel, far from content to be seen as pawns of Damascus, have their own agenda at odds with Syria's. "While Syria wants to negotiate Israeli withdrawal as part of a package that includes the Golan Heights, Hezbollah would prefer a unilateral withdrawal that would allow them to proclaim themselves the first army ever to have liberated Arab territory from Israeli control," says MacLeod. "But despite a potential conflict with Syria, Hezbollah's enjoying a surge of support throughout the Arab world - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdallah recently rushed...
...more to learn about memory from a chapter of Spence's Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci than from the whole of this failed comedy. What this ultimately shows is that an effective psychological novel, unlike this one, is meaningful on a deeper level than these plot contrivances will allow. Truth is stranger, and more interesting to read about, than this fiction...
...mother's adoption of Wellington, a Kikuyu who is much wiser than the muddle-headed, annoying mother, seems superfluous, included merely for the humorous possibilities. Moreover, the diary's focus on 1997, complete with references to the election of Tony Blair, dates it a bit, although it does allow Bridget to react to the death of Diana-leaving us relating to a fictional character who herself relates to a real-life character whose life was equal parts fairy tale and tragedy...
...deal with simply because of his or her sexual orientation. It is the final club members, the Pudding, the audience, everyone involved with Club Night at the Pudding or other campus events and organizations that breed bigotry who should feel ashamed. And any of us who sit by and allow this bigotry to go unchecked should feel the shame...
...torture charges and said Pinochet was free to leave. But the generalissimo will return to a country no longer in his thrall. When he left Chile in September 1998 it was as self-appointed senator-for-life and a self-satisfied former military ruler who had deigned to allow civilians once again to govern. When his plane lands in Santiago - a capital now ruled, once again, by the very Socialist party Pinochet overthrew in his 1973 coup - he won't be greeted as a national hero. Neither president-elect Ricardo Lagos nor outgoing President Eduardo Frei will...