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Samaria says she was in town to visit her father, who is ill, and joined the tent city because she thought it was interesting...
...Benito was chastened all those years ago by a nasty surprise at the hands of an unthinkable alliance, the effect on Washington of the U.N. vote may be quite different. If it was designed to get Washington to take international forums more seriously, the Europeans' gesture may have been ill-considered - because it may achieve exactly the opposite result, amplifying U.S. skepticism over involvement in the U.N. And therein lies the tragedy of the breakdown between the U.S. and its allies: They want Washington to play a leadership role in world affairs; at the same time, situations from Iraq...
...reformulated gas, a cleaner-burning blend required by the EPA in certain urban (read: smoggy) areas in summer. Chicago is at the bottleneck of the Midwest refinery supply line; prices go up as soon as one of the area's suppliers (like the Tosco refinery in Wood River, Ill., that had a fire last week) goes down...
...father (and his sisters) spoke and wrote in English, while her mother and grandmother ate separately in their private quarters and spoke Hindi. The men were agnostic, the women superstitious and devout. Separated for much of her youth from her jailed father, Jawaharlal Nehru, and from her perpetually ill mother, Indira Gandhi was dispatched to a variety of schools across India. As a teenager, she went to Europe, where she moved in and out of university and sanatorium. She was lonely and infected with tuberculosis, a disease no one was brave enough to mention at the time because it usually...
...marvelously cool eye for the slightly surreal aspects of American bad taste. Lamps that light when you clap your hands, the chrome and leather modernism of an arriviste's pad--they are the objective correlatives of his characters' endless seducibility, their inability to imagine the stupid consequences of ill-considered passion...