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...Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Franzen had never been to Lithuania when he described it as a land of "chronic coal and electricity shortages, freezing drizzles, drive-by shootings and a heavy dietary reliance on horsemeat." A Lithuanian ambassador took exception - and invited him for a visit...
...children." The crowd of more than 10,000 Socialist Party members loved it. It was the key moment in her exposition of a resolutely Socialist view of the world that went down like ice cream for the party faithful. "We cannot allow financial power alone to drive the world," she insisted. "The marketplace is not the only law." As for foreign policy, her principle there was simple: "the never extinguished light of the French Revolution," shining with enlightened commitment to human rights and a multipolar world...
...contact of fangs on neck is erotic - a deep, dirty first kiss, and the prelude to fatal sexual enslavement. Hannibal Rising isn't nearly that much fun. It doesn't, in the manner of its hero, take a bite out of you. The movie is more like a blood drive where you go to donate your pint and nobody takes the needle out and you're strapped to the gurney unable to do anything but watch your life drip away. It's that kind of movie: enervating, draining, sucking. Though the movie has some laughable lines...
...friend in Vancouver to drive to the Oyama Sausage Co., a high-end meat store at the amazing market on Granville Island. Sadly, she wasn't able to pick up any horse steaks, or better yet Italian horse salami or German horse sausage. Not only are they supposed to be great, but it would have allowed me to say horse salami and horse sausage throughout this article. But she did pick up half a pound of salted, cured meat. On the FedEx form, she called the shipment a "leather art project," which seemed about right. Still, Homeland Security must have...
That would be Uncle Sam. Yes, there are purely private jobs in the region: drive among the dense thickets of office buildings in Tyson's Corner and along the Dulles Toll Road, and you see some impressive corporate HQs--Capital One, Freddie Mac, Gannett, Sprint Nextel. But you also come across mysterious acronyms like BAE, CSC, MITRE and SAIC. These are big-time government contractors, and when Fuller looks closely at job growth in the area, it is mainly these that he sees...