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Warm and friendly dealmakers. These are indeed very different times. But with capital getting easier to find and plenty of stocks still down, buyout kings may find that even the Ramones can still make sweet music...
...first third of the book describes the gradual downfall of Solomon Dorai, the patriarch of the clan, in the fictional village of Chevathar, famous for its succulently sweet blue mangoes. After he dies in the early 1900s in a fateful clash between castes, his two sons leave home. One, the rebellious and violent Aaron, is a daredevil who eventually ends up joining the revolt against the British. The quiet elder brother Daniel takes another path: banished from the family for not fighting against the lower castes, he rejects politics, including Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent independence movement, and becomes a successful...
...full moon have anything to do with the man waving a pistol outside the White House, the one the Secret Service shot in the knee? That was sweet shooting, by the way, only slightly more hurtful than the kind Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys, used to do to knock a gun out of the bad guy's hand - immaculate gunplay. Alas, I see that Roy's wife, Dale Evans, has died, having survived into an age of movies that by digital magic turn each screen death into the gaudiest, bloodiest horror...
...Bush, who spared no sweet-talk overture to reluctant Democrats over the past week, seems intent on using the tax cut to see how much he can do with the Republican votes he's got. And Democrats figure this is their chance to make bipartisanship a very uncomfortable reality for the new president...
...fear of being soft on crime. It's a hangover from the drug war heyday of the 1980s." And even today, some politicians still find a willing audience for anti-drug rants, Nadelmann adds. "It's still possible to demagogue this issue - although demagoguery does not ring as sweet to American ears as it used...