Word: parallelisms
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...sidelines that got the Security Council to take up the Iraq issue last September and the Administration may now be hoping that reminding member states that Washington isn't bound by their consensus may pressure them into adopting a satisfactory disarmament resolution. The Administration's parallel assertion that Saddam will never comply implies that the UN process, in Washington's mind, is intended primarily to prove to the rest of the world that there is no alternative to invasion. But for many Europeans and Arabs, the UN process remains their best hope of pressuring Saddam to do what it takes...
Along the way, Tartt tells the parallel story of the Ratliff family (Danny proves to be a pitiable sad sack, terrorized by his elder brother). The connections between the Ratliffs and Harriet's family make a kind of class history of the white South from Jefferson Davis to Lynyrd Skynyrd. If Tartt's tone softens a bit at the end, her unsentimental clarity avoids the feel-good coming-of-age-tale pitfalls that irritate Harriet. "She did not care for children's books in which the children grew up," Tartt writes, "as what 'growing up' entailed (in life...
...doesn't want to pre-empt the commission's official findings, which are due by the end of the year, but one conclusion is indisputable. "There were bizarre goings-on everywhere at Sabena," he says, "and not just with the Airbus." Bizarre may be too mild a term. Parallel to the commission's work, Belgian magistrate Jean-Claude Van Espen is conducting a criminal inquiry into Sabena. His probe is based on three separate suits filed by former workers. Details of his investigation and the suits themselves are confidential, and no charges have yet been filed. But the plaintiffs have...
...Their perspectives were very parallel,” said Shai Kalansky, a visiting undergraduate from the University of California, San Diego. “I thought there’d be more engagement with each other within what they each had to say, as opposed to congruence...
Interestingly, the execution of the novel itself seems to parallel the failed love of Birdie and Finus. There are points at which the timing is off; the chronological contortions are jarring and characters narrate out of nowhere...