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...this time, most of the story belongs to Liz, a twice-divorced psychotherapist who lives comfortably in London's St. John's Wood. It is she who receives by mail an odd package containing notebooks, scrambled manuscript pages and what appears to be the skeletal remains of a human finger. She assumes that all this has something to do with her friend Stephen Cox, a respected novelist who set off some two years earlier, hoping to get into Cambodia and gather material for a play about Pol Pot. And it is she who finally decides to go to Cambodia herself...
...also went without saying that Bush could have done something. Government can do anything, right? Bush can just waive his little finger and make everything better. If we can get so many government programs with such low taxes, then the normal laws of cause and effect don't apply to politics. Our paternalistic government is omnipotent. Which means that Bush is a BAD, BAD person. He just stood there watching while good, decent Americans went without jobs...
...fact, almost any agreement at all wasstifled by finger-pointing from each side of theissue...
...November, the U.S. Justice Department blamed the bombing on two Libyans, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. The scenario prompted President Bush to remark, "The Syrians took a bum rap on this." It also triggered an outcry from the victims' families, who claimed that pointing the finger at Libya was a political ploy designed to reward Syria for siding with the U.S. in the gulf war and to help win the release of the hostages. Even Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's investigation of the bombing, told the New York Times it was "outrageous...
Shaking Felix's hand is like putting on a tight leather glove. His fingers are short, thick, powerful, with the nails trimmed close. Fingertips are black with polish, calloused, and scuffed like rough-cut pine. The skin is cracked splintered, not just on the tips but down the finger to the palm, He is strong, but not with the manicured muscles of the beauty parlor weight room. His barrer-shaped forearms have been built by forty years of intense, detailed work, banding thick leather to his bidding...