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...politicians contradict themselves, of course. It's almost impossible to remain perfectly consistent and ideologically pure under the watchful gaze of the media - especially in an age when conflicting statements are just a click on YouTube away. But Sarkozy's slipperiness is notable because his political success has been built around his reputation as a straight talker and someone who acts rather than bloviates. Now many voters - and even some of his former allies - are questioning the President they thought they knew. "This is classic Sarkozy: claiming [that] adaptable principles and a willingness to take any stand likely to reinforce...
...Europe divided between the Austro-Hungarian Clankers, who are technologists, and the British Darwinists, who are bioengineers. "Leviathan takes place as World War I begins, which is the end of the early era of technological romance," Westerfeld explains. "Those first tanks and other machines of war look almost comical to us now, but to the first soldiers to encounter them on the battlefield, they must have seemed like monsters. Steampunk was a way to reinvigorate that horror...
...almost as if Iran is trying to parody a gratuitously cruel, dictatorial regime...
...people inside - about a third of my graduating class - were not a random sample of J.P. Stevens High School students. There were almost no Asian kids, black kids, burnout kids or even-nerdier-than-me kids. No, these were solely the kids who went to keg parties. It turns out that people who liked to get together in big groups and get drunk still like to get together in big groups and get drunk. They also like to listen to music from 1985 to '89 when nostalgiaing, yet Reunions Unlimited Inc. managed to find the only DJ in America...
...weeks by New Delhi and, 58 days after it began, Sriramulu died, a sacrifice that triggered widespread rioting and eventually forced the government into forming the Telugu-speaking state of Andhra Pradesh in 1953, as well as other new states organized on linguistic lines. No small irony then, that, almost 60 years later, another hunger strike threatens to dismember the state Sriramulu first won, and revive a fierce debate about the nature of the federal Indian nation-state. (See a pictorial history of the tempestuous Nehru dynasty of India...