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...particular form. When the elder Naipaul dies, the first indication we get of the tragedy is Vido's frantic wire home, "He was the best man I knew stop everything I owe to him be brave my loves trust me." Vido's urgent need to connect with his family upon hearing the news comes through clearly in the wire, even as we get a sense of how sudden the event...
...contract did not place any limitations on the content of the sites upon which the ad would appear. As a result, McCain 2000 may not have been aware that their ad ran on the website...
...became a fan of bullfighting, took up boxing and exerted the chauvinistic bravado for which Hemingway was famous. However, both Mailer's life and his writing appear to fall short of his icon's legacy. Throughout Mailer, its subject appears to be without direction and confidence, but instead acting upon whatever spurs his imagination at the moment. While he has been a major figure in American literature in the second half of the 20th century, one wonders what would have become of Mailer if he had never published The Naked and the Dead at age 23. Although the success...
...think of music as a hobby; the career can come later, just as it did for himself. But Ben has come to his father for advice; his father was able to offer great perspective with Ben was faced with tough decision making in picking musical groups at Harvard. Upon hearing his son's offer to play with the Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Isaiah asked, "What do you know about baroque music?" Ben replied, "It's tuned to A-flat, right?" Isaiah laughed and replied, "That's politically incorrect...
...Echelon system, a Cold War-era surveillance network operated by the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Britain. It concludes that U.S. intelligence officials colluded with top American tech firms, including Microsoft and IBM, in operating the system and sifting through the vast amount of information it intercepts daily. Upon hearing the E.C. report, French justice minister Elisabeth Guigou complained vociferously, encouraging French businesses to encrypt any sensitive information transmitted over phone lines or satellites...