Hints and tips:
...Meanwhile, I’d been dressed in this buttoned-up blouse and was pretending to be the director, fretting about consent, and my honest initial reaction was, ‘Oh my god, I shouldn’t even be here. Argh!’”...
...Chequered history The relationship between the black community and law enforcement has always been hostile, says Delores Jones-Brown, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York....
...I started by pretending they were Vietnamese from the war films I’d seen and then I’d think about the question the Sergeant had asked: if we went to war with Pakistan, would I fight?...
...“It is at best stalled, at worst . . . going backwards.”...
...The Columbia University professor recounts how powerful Southern congressmen rescued US capitalism by passing Franklin D Roosevelt’s reforms – at the price of reinforcing racial segregation....
...It’s point of order this, and Mr Speaker that; ministers lounge on green benches, just as they do in London; there is a sergeant-at-arms and Black Rod; a mace and despatch boxes....
...Rather than knock back the question with a standard reply that the Budget was an issue for politicians, he launched a prepared missile at calls by Gordon Brown, the prime minister, for a sustained fiscal...
..., Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown all want that photograph....
...By December, I’d planned the trip. I’d fly that January. As a teenager, I had come to Israel on the eve of war. This time, a different war was ending....
...Kenneth D. Lewis was born in rural Mississippi in 1947, the son of an army sergeant and a nurse. His family moved frequently and his parents divorced when he was 12....
...“A fat brown goose lay at one end of the table and at the other end, on a bed of creased paper strewn with sprigs of parsley, lay a great ham, stripped of its outer skin and peppered all over with crust,...
...It is more difficult, but rational, to admit that the war in Iraq has proved a highly effective recruiting sergeant for Islamist extremism. But there is a dangerous line here that must not be crossed....
...Meanwhile, Stone is training more than 2,000 Iraqi correctional officers at Bucca and Cropper, where 1,000 Iraqi guards already work....
...At this, a shortish man in his 40s walks slowly into the illuminated space. He has red-brown hair and a broad, flat nose, wears sideburns and a suit in Prince of Wales check....
International Edition