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...Y Roger C. Schlobin is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at East Carolina University and Professor Emeritus of Purdue University. He ... ...rs of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts and its conference and of the “Year’s Scholarship in Science Fiction and Fantasy.”... ...ned, dusted with gold, rising into the shadows. Mei-chou had no idea how big he was, but he was larger than average. She knew there was a measure... ... proud he remembered some of his schooling though he did stumble over the big word. "How did you make it?" No, it's not a symbol; it is the world,... ...?" "Don't know. If they haven't solved the Azghun Demons, it sure is a big mistake." A kitten in the back yowled at the mention of the dread name... ...t leaned toward the draining water. They lifted up to let the occasional schools of tuna pass beneath their talons. Obviously, he wasn't going to ... ...deep trouble this time! "My Lord Chu, Teacher of the Great, Light of the East, Wisest of the Wise, may I enter." His nod was almost imperceptible....

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...t had in its less faded moments a sort of dingy gaiety. There were several big plaster-rimmed wounds in this, caused by Parload’s ineffectual attempts... ...f the tea-things. Tea at the gardener’s cottage was a serious meal, with a big cake and little cakes, and preserves and fruit, a fine spread upon a ta... ...lley between staging that bore a close crowd of pots and ferns, and behind big branching plants that were spread and nailed overhead so as to make an ... ...ntain crest, in the market- place outside the Clayton Town Hall, where the conference was held… . I consider myself justified in regarding Lord Redcar... ...ed, although at that time the miners were still nominally at work, and the conferences be- tween masters and men still in session at Clayton T own Hal... ...et threw up all the con- tours and skyline to the west, and the comet rose eastward out of the pouring tumult of smoke from Bladden’s forges. The moon... ...ung about in what looks like a free fight, and off with a rush and clatter east, west, north, and south. The interest passes outwardly; the men from t... ...s were there, at least hinting themselves. It was a place somewhere on the east coast, I knew, either in Norfolk or Suffolk. “Why!” cried I—and stoppe... ...hat was held two days later in Melmount’s bungalow, and which convened the conference to frame the constitution of the World State. I was there becaus...

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...ngest juxtapositions; in Mala- gasy soldiers resting for a spell among the big shells they were hoisting into trucks for the front, in a couple of kha... ...terrogation. They look up as the privi- leged tourist of the front, in the big automobile or the re- served compartment, with his officer or so in cha... ...pecimens of some species of Ammonites unknown to me, from the hills to the east of the Adige, partially wrapped in a back number of the Corriere della... ...t de T essin took me to the great hotel—it still proclaims “Restaurant” in big black letters on the garden wall— which shelters the General Headquarte... ... able from this position to get a very good idea of the lie of the Italian eastern front. I was in the delta of the Isonzo. Directly in front of me we... ...an the red ridge of the Carso, of which the Italians had just captured the east- ern half. Behind this again rose the mountains to the east of the Iso... ...esented a world state as arising out of Armageddon, I made the first world conference meet at Brissago in Italian Switzerland under the presidency of ... ...y until the get clerical “Greek” and sham “humanities” out of their public schools and sincere study and genuine humanities in; our disingenuous Angli... ...ng and securing advantages. It is inevitable that a settle- ment made in a conference of belligerents alone will be short- sighted, harsh, limited by ...

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..., vanished over the hills, reappeared a little blue outline far off in the east, going now very fast before a gentle south-west gale, returned above t... ...e, and walked to his ma- chine. “I tell you, sir,” he said, “there isn’t a big Power in Europe, or Asia, or America, or Africa, that hasn’t got at lea... ...ll his clamour, when about six o’clock one summer morning the doors of the big shed in which he had been putting together his ap- paratus opened—it wa... ... which he had been putting together his ap- paratus opened—it was near the big model of a megatherium in the Crystal Palace grounds—and his giant inse... ...d patriotic cries, and then flew up very swiftly and easily into the south-eastern sky, rising and falling with long, easy undulations in an ex- traor... ... in packing and dis- persing the rest. Sealed packing-cases went north and east and west to various pantechnicons, and the engines were boxed with pec... ... the time when the Graf von Winterfeld had talked to him and this alarming conference with the Prince, Bert had explored the Vaterland from end to end... ...ar upon that himself, and was still explaining when Bert was called to the conference we have recorded with the Prince. And after that was over, the l... .... If there had been, the world would have arranged for a Uni- versal Peace Conference in 1900. But mechanical invention had gone faster than intellect...

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...issed Mrs Boffin after a five o’clock dinner, and trotted out, nursing his big stick in both arms, so that, as of old, it seemed to be whispering in h... ...n his countenance that it appeared as if the confidential discourse of the big stick re- quired to be followed closely. Mr Boffin’s face was like the ... ...ling and rubbing his hands as she sat him down in his chair, ‘I attend two schools. There’s the Mincing Lane establishment, and there’s your mother’s ... ...er Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist cr... ...ter. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the fir... ... and Margaretta his wife, with whom Mortimer Lightwood had been already in conference, should come and join them. That worthy couple were delayed by a... ... a candle, and withdrew with that gentleman. They were a full half-hour in conference. When they returned, Mr Inspector looked considerably astonished... ...ion at the moment, might have been a writing-master, setting copies. Their conference done, Mr Inspector returned to the fireplace, and, having observ... ...rotected corner of the little seat in her little porch. It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light...

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...akistan’s Nice Little War III. The Afghan Trip On the Road to Iraq – Central and East Europe I. EU and NATO – The Competing Alliances II. The ... ...ted Nations The War in Iraq – Coalition Building I. The Economies of the Middle East II. The Costs of Coalition Building III. Is It All about O... ...: among America's NATO allies, in developing countries, Muslim nations and even in eastern Europe where Americans, only a decade ago, were lionized... ...revamp the union's administration and the hitherto sacred balance between small and big states prior to the accession of 10 central and east Europea... ...America is a suzerain and, as such, it is irresistible. Succumbing to the will of a Big Power is the rule in east and central Europe. The nations of... ...rograms, inertly and futilely maintained by beneficiary bureaucrats. Follow-up U.N. conferences - and they tend to proliferate incontrollably - are ... ... and the country could well become the war's greatest victim. In a recent economic conference of the Arab League, then Egyptian Minister of State f... ...s and GDP declined by two fifths in the first two years of the intifada. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned last Septemb... ...picuous consumption and educated populace. "Baghdadi" in many Arab dialects meant "big spender". Two thirds of all Iraqi children attended secondar...

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...was brother to the great bear, the deer and eagle, even the buffalo that roamed east of the forest on the great plains. One day he would be Chief, a... ...ed "Patience". Seattle wondered if the Great White Chief, who lived far to the east and lived in a great white lodge, ever sat beside a river and f... ...n to laugh sarcastically. "You haven't a clue about what love is. You're like a big teenager, all caught up in a hobby you call a career." The SOH... ...him. "Please, let's sit down," Matloch said, motioning to an ele­ gant rosewood conference table located in the center of the room. They all sat at ... ...orward, chomping on his cigar, he opened his hands and extended them across the conference ta­ ble, "Please, sit down, Richard," he said softly. " ..... ...hur?" "Arthur Hill, he's my assistant. He's setting everything up for the news conference. Care for a drink?" "No thanks, maybe later." Hawk was mo... ...oject Survival, 1 guess," Brent said pointing to a thirty foot long banner with big, red block letters hanging conspicuously behind the speaker's ta... ... ter and called River Song immediately. "I feel like shit." "I'd say you were a big hit today. CNN said that you were go­ ing to be the darling ofthe... ...s­ sion whenever he traveled in search of new mining contracts around the North East. The only problem that frustrated Aaron was not having the tec...

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...e -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthag... ...tagem -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- ... ...use of a soothsayer -- The King is invited on board da Gama's ship -- Swapping big stories -- Some presents that gained the King's favors -- The ghost... ...isoner - - His arrest results to his advantage -- Surprising sights in the far east -- An exciting race after native swimmers -- Torture of prisoners ... ...est ruby that was ever seen; that in size it was as long as one's hand, and as big as a man's arm, without spot, and shining like a fire, and which th... ...hour after hour went by as he and his secretaries examined the contents of the big box. LEGENDS OF OTHER VOYAGERS. And then and there for the first ti... ...m was a great wonder, the flying fishes, and watched the larger fish chase the schools of flyers, waiting until they should return to the water and th... ...ise, they were resolved to return. At the same time they invited Magellan to a conference on board Cartagena's ship. ASSASSINATION OF MENDOZA. The ste... ...ered in North Baffin Bay a wide extent of open water in which sported numerous schools of whales, and thus was established an extensive whale fishery ...

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...ational feeling, that I do not see why the negotiating means, the standing conference of the three, should not ultimately become the needed nucleus of... ...ays than one to the World State, and this second possibility of a post-war conference and a conference of the Allies, growing almost unawares into a p... ...ommends itself to me as probable. After a more detailed examination of the big operating forces at present working in the world, we may be in a positi... ...ue to the failure of the Russian munitions. Then for a time the war in the East was mobile and precarious while the Rus- sians retreated to their pres... ...thened line of supplies, and Bloch is back upon his pedestal so far as the Eastern theatre goes. Bloch has been equally justified in the Anglo-French ... ...ugh or getting round; and so too the losses of the German colonies and the East African War are scarcely to be reckoned with in the main war. They hav... ...he peace negotiations will take the extraordinary form of two simultaneous conferences—one of the Pledged Allies, sitting probably in Paris or London,... ...em everything is painful and destructive; it can be a very light matter to big people; it may be almost painless to a State. If England went bankrupt ... ...est, a restoration of the park, the enclosure, the gold stan- dard and the big automobile, with only this difference—that the minimum wage will be som...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are...

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...T A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemi sphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Sc... ...chiefs, came pouring into Britain. One body, conquering the Britons in the East, and settling there, called their kingdom Essex; another body settled ... ... En gland waste. In the last mentioned reign, they seized Edmund, King of East England, and bound him to a tree. Then, they proposed to him that he s... ...ave hung across the streets, and no man would have touched one. He founded schools; he patiently heard causes himself in his Court of Justice; the gre... ...happy England, what a fighting ground it was!—and then Ironside, who was a big man, proposed to Canute, who was a little man, that they two should fig... ...that they two should fight it out in single combat. If Canute had been the big man, he would probably have said yes, but, being the little man, he dec... ...ch vigour, that Louis soon proposed a con ference to treat for peace. The conference was held beneath an old wide spreading green elm tree, upon a p... ...d lay in heaps everywhere. The old King, stuck up in a suit of armour on a big war horse, which didn’t mind him at all, and which carried him into all... ...point for that purpose. Accordingly, such an assembly, under the name of a conference, met, first at York, and af terwards at Hampton Court. In its p...

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... I Take My Pen in Hand?...........................................141 To the East and to the West...............141 Leaves of Grass –Whitman 3 Somet... ...? We dwell a while in every city and town, We pass through Kanada, the North east, the vast valley of the Mississippi, and the Southern States, Leaves... ...welcome for them everywhere, for they are your own off spring, Surround them East and West, for they would surround you, And you precedents, connect l... ...ears old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but... ...I mind them or the show or resonance of them—I come and I depart. 9 The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready, The dried grass of th... ...ands at the altar, The spinning girl retreats and advances to the hum of the big wheel, The farmer stops by the bars as he walks on a First day loafe ... ...ch, Comrade of Californians, comrade of free North Westerners, (loving their big proportions,) Comrade of raftsmen and coalmen, comrade of all who sha... ...atever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets, newspapers, schools, The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories, s... ...y sense thy varied strange suggestions, (I see and plainly list thy talk and conference here,) Thy troops of white maned racers racing to the goal, Th...

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...nd tired. "Mama," Antonio whispered. She opened her eyes slowly, and then a big smile lit up her face. "Antonio, my son," she said warmly, and the... ...ey through normal channels." Immediately Brand knew he had potentially made a big mistake with his last outburst. Cardona was caught between the ob... ... 108 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 10 THE PRESS CONFERENCE "Walter is everything ready? Press Conference, handou... ...er said rolling his eyes. "I'm sorry, Walter. I'm nervous, I need this Press Conference to go well. I need 109 J.Cross/Artemis your support." ... ...then remembered, "Where's Marian?" "She's organizing the media for the Press Conference, and trying to answer the unanswerable." "What's that?" ... ...e facing the Alliance. The real debate would begin later in the year when the Eastern Block Nations would be pushing hard for full membership into t... ...s father had a couple of stiff Irish whiskies, which then softened him into a big cuddly bear. Joey didn't mind his father's occasional drinking, as ... ... into the states." "With a limited supply of drugs, what will happen on the East coast? The 196 J.Cross/Artemis Russians and the Puerto Rican... ...y'll go after first?" he asked. "My guess would be the Puerto Ricans on the Eastern seaboard -- from New York to Florida. The Russians want contro...

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...t is my impression that, if anything, they tend rather to enjoy such experiences.‘(5) ―In Singaling in our parent education, in our school... ...phasize this idea of what it means to be truly human. Our education plan is total—or at least as complete as we can make it. Typically here in East A... ...stance possible for this to happen—and it happens more than you might imagine. ―Our government‘s aims are to help the parents, the school... ...asted only three months in formal education. He was home-schooled by his mother who gave him the drive for success. ―Some of us have big hu... ...used religion as the reasons for the Inquisition, witch hunting, the Thirty Years War, the 9/11 massacre and many more. But zealots of the Mid-East r... ...hild abuse. With the exception of Lot having sex with his daughters or Judah with his daughter-in-law, incest is against God‘s laws in the Mid-Easter... ...y. Because of my success as an athlete and my commitment to sport I was appointed as a representative to the International Olympic Committee‘s Confer... ...ary Poppins . . . practically perfect.‖ —―You illustrate our nearly universal opinions, that we don‘t make mistakes or misjudgments. The big mi... ... I‘ve rerun that instant in my mind, but it was definitely a peak experience. ―Another was approaching Saturn‘s rings. And one of the big on...

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...hat peoples aware of a distinctive national character and involved in some big existing political complex, should wish to disentangle themselves from ... ...ck soldierly thumbnail across maps, is—old-fashioned. They have made their east- ern treaties, it is true, in this mode, but they are still looking fo... ...the Labour movement in every European country to take part in a collateral conference of Labour that shall meet when 17 H.G. Wells and where the Peac... ...its proceedings. For a year now the demand of the masses for such a Labour conference has been growing. It marks a distrust of officialdom whose inten... ...tions they demand. On the other hand, I do not contemplate this bi-cameral conference with the diplomatists trying to best and humbug the Labour peopl... ...ble.” No! That sort of thing will not do now. This Peace Con- gress is too big a job for party politicians and society and county families. The bulk o... ...ect of the next great war. The League of Free Nations means something very big and solid; it is not a rhetorical phrase to be used to pacify a restles... ... the past to set up international admin- istrations in Africa and the Near East. And these gentlemen think at once of some new Congo administration an... ...g out infectious disease in Nyasaland while it is being bred in Portuguese East Africa. And if there is a Disarmament Commission already controlling t...

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...fights. As soon as five o’clock rolled around it was time to eat. Denny’s, Big Boy’s, and Friday’s were favorites. Just thinking about those restauran... ...illed with children excited over the freshly fallen snow. Since all of the schools were closed, the children were assured enjoyment for several days. ... ... W ars video games hit the market, many of which were very successful. The big moment came in 1994, however, when George Lucas announced his plans to ... ... be- fore finally ending at the border in Pennsylvania, the most famous of East Coast trails. “The cliffs!” he said keeping his voice to a hushed shou... ... Joe Paterno: He Is Penn State THE COLLEGE football world has gone mad. Conferences are doing battle in courtrooms instead of on the football field... ...le in courtrooms instead of on the football field. Teams are leaving their conferences and throwing tradition and loyalty out the window for a bigger ... ... outdated. Now, in the twilight of his career, he has to battle a grueling Big Ten schedule, the media who made him a legend and who are now looking t...

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...s aware of the futility of literary watch- words and the vanity of all the schools of fiction. Not 40 Notes on Life and Letters that M. Anatole Franc... ...aw him for the last time on his last day in England. It was in Dover, in a big hotel, in a bed- room with a large window looking on to the sea. He had... .... The story of “The Schoo- ner with a Past” may be heard, from the Straits east- ward, with many variations. Out in the Pacific the schooner becomes a... ...d of all nations, Mr. Roosevelt, would promptly excommu- nicate him with a big stick. The truth is that the ex- autocrat of all the States does not li... ...emed stealthy and remote. There was about that figure the scent of the far East, like the peculiar atmo- sphere of a Mandarin’s back yard, and the mus... ... I only wished to suggest that in the nature of things, the war in the Far East has been made known to us, so far, in a grey reflec- tion of its terri... ...ined robes in the solemn atmosphere of Council-rooms, where congresses and conferences sit with closed windows. It would not be exorcised by the bruta... ...ile they watched Old Eu- rope stage-managing fussily by means of notes and conferences, the prophetic reproduction of its await- ing fate. It was wond... ...o get in touch with the world I was invading was a piece of paper not much big- ger than the palm of my hand—in which I held it— torn out of a larger ...

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...nature had been reversed. All foods, he felt, must now be adulterated. All schools must be closed. No advertisements must be sent to the newspapers, o... ...as an intolerable affectation; and the picture galler- ies and museums and schools at once occupied by war work- ers. The British Museum itself was sa... ...ing never realized it. They were not heartless anymore than I was; but the big catastrophe was too big for them to grasp, and the little one had been ... ...ight, over an item of seven shil- lings for refreshments? Little Minds and Big Battles Nobody will be able to understand the vagaries of public feelin... ...pired messages be- came scraps of paper. He knows well that from the Peace Conference will come, in spite of his utmost, no edict on which he will be ... ...lankets hanging over the back. Between the sofa and the drawing-table is a big wicker chair, with broad arms and a low sloping back, with its back to ... ... and the house is a flagstaff on a little esplanade, with a hammock on the east side and a long garden seat on the west. A young lady, gloved and hatt... ...invented? MRS HUSHABYE. Five hundred pounds; and I have made it last since Easter! CAPTAIN SHOTOVER. Since Easter! Barely four months! Monstrous extra... ...of the poop, finds Lady Utterword lying voluptuously in the hammock on the east side of the flagstaff, in the circle of light cast by the electric arc...

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...ed to speak to another who wished to get away. With his head bent, and his big feet spread apart, he began explaining his reasons for thinking the abb... ... is very stingy. She must have two footmen behind her car- riage, and very big ones. That was her taste. And she 13 Tolstoy had a lady’s maid, also b... ... coming and going continually, bringing visitors to the Countess Rostova’s big house on the Povarskaya, so well known to all Moscow. The countess hers... ...ents were to be admoni- tory and not corporal, and hospitals, asylums, and schools were to be established on all the estates. Some of the stewards (th... ...serfs as imprac- ticable, he arranged for the erection of large buildings— schools, hospitals, and asylums—on all the estates be- fore the master arri... ...sit down on the bed on which he lay. I made the sign of the Knights of the East and of Jerusalem, and he responded in the same manner, ask- ing me wit... ...ight either for or against Austria. Our political interests are all in the East, and in regard to Bonaparte the only thing is to have an armed frontie... ...men, reckoning those transporting and feeding the army-moved from the west eastwards to the Russian frontier, toward which since 1811 Russian forces h... ...s to supply men and not spare ourselves... That is the least we can do!” A conference took place confined to the magnates sitting at the table. The wh...

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... Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States. Millions of men and women readied themselves for wor... ...in. Around this time Sweeney told W oodward that the hijackers were Middle East- erners, naming three of their seat numbers. One spoke very little Eng... ...began repeatedly and unsuccessfully try- ing to contact it. 44 At 8:52, in Easton, Connecticut, a man named Lee Hanson received a phone call from his ... ...rsonnel at headquarters had just begun discussing the apparent hijack on a conference call with the New England regional office. FAA headquarters bega... ...w Y ork Center: W e have several situations going on here. It’s escalating big, big time.W e need to get the military involved with us. . . . We’re, w... ...ike there were parallel decisionmaking processes going on; one was a voice conference orchestrated by the NMCC . . . and then there was the [White Hou... ...ting venues for command and control and decisionmaking.” 190 At 10:03, the conference received reports of more missing aircraft,“2 pos- 36 THE 9/11 CO... ...at- ters, or in looking back to investigate mistakes, and often missed the big questions—as did the executive branch. Staff tended as well to focus on... ...ruary 2001, a source reported that an individual whom he identified as the big instructor (probably a reference to Bin Ladin) complained frequently th...