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...southern Turkey, to Aqaba in Jordan, following the invasion path used by Alexander the Great and the Crusaders. His odyssey ended abruptly when a peculiarly modern kind of tribe, the Hizballah, kidnaped and held him hostage in Beirut for two months until his escape. The trip is the framework for this book. He describes it as a "literary and spiritual ramble through the history of a troubled land." It is really a travelogue, letting us see through Glass's omnivorous eye for detail what the author-wanderer experienced each...
...this regard, both Yale and Harvard offer a skeleton on which you hang marvellous pieces of intellectual experiences for the rest of your life. They give you a framework. Of course, there are differences between the two colleges, and they are wonderful...
...writes to a friend in Australia. He favors words like ludic and trots out gambits like "Her eyes are like Indian groceries. That's to say, they're open." Yet Richard yearns to influence his wife's work. Her latest novel, he tells her, needs a "strong central framework of ironic self-awareness." Published without any such carpentry, it becomes her biggest success. He hopes -- even expects -- that she will write about him, but learns to his chagrin that her next project will be about his relatives, particularly his rather drab mother. "My entire family lies gasping on the bank...
...That kind of talk shocks Washington, and the Bush Administration has decided to put its weight behind Kohl and his commitment to the Atlantic Alliance. Even in Washington, however, where long-term planning covers two or three years at most, policymakers recognize the need to design a new security framework in Europe...
Sociology professor and longtime Carril observer Marvin Bressler sees more than strategy. He sees a framework of philosophy behind it. "Pete is a consequential man with all these quirks. He is the only man who can talk like a 19th century moralist and not embarrass me." Carril can fan himself into instant fury over the hypocrisy of a player who invokes the name of God before a game, then insults the integrity of the officials by pretending to be the victim of a foul once on the court. "If I'm ever refereeing a game and that happens," he says...