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...Back in 2004, 30% of Kepala Batas voters actually chose the PAS parliamentary candidate over Abdullah. (In a complicated twist of family history, Abdullah's father served as a PAS youth leader, before the party fully broke with UMNO.) This election season, PAS's green-and-white flags flutter throughout Kepala Batas. "Abdullah may come from a good Muslim family, but he does not make his wife wear a veil," says Fadzil Darus, a grocery-store owner in the Kepala Batas village of Pasir Gebu, who plans to vote for the Islamic party...
Odds are, you’ve felt it. That itch in the back of your mind. Or maybe it’s a flutter in the pit of your stomach. It started in the background, and then last week it began to build. By now, it’s an all-out full-body thrill...
...only an hour before, Travolta says, "Stand up." When a movie star of three decades' eminence tells me to rise, I obey, and I'm now facing Travolta, nearly nose to nose. He clamps me in a python embrace. His blue eyes and soft voice start to flutter. "Oh, you came here to give me my Oscar!" he whispers in a dewy approximation of Stanwyck's purr to Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve (right before she devours him). Without easing his grip on me-he's still in the moment 25 years ago-he says in his own voice...
...relaxed sense of power, we gradually reeled in Yale’s three-quarter-length advantage in the body of the race course,” he said. “In the final quarter of the race, we held a commanding lead over Yale and withheld a flutter from Pennsylvania by raising the rate of striking in a burning sprint...
Like residents of Berlin during the airlift, inhabitants of Arbil--capital of the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq--get a little flutter in their hearts when they see a plane coming in to land. Built after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Arbil's international airport is a symbol to Kurds that their years of isolation as an oppressed ethnic minority are over and that the Kurdish region, unlike the rest of Iraq, is open for business. Passengers flying into Baghdad have to endure a corkscrew landing to avoid possible surface-to-air missiles. But a trip to Arbil...