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… not only an abundance of power, economic and military, but also the relevance of that power to the perceived wants of … adverse trade balances abroad, and the rise of powerful, competing economies, especially in Germany and Japan. … in a world without a hegemonic antagonist. No enemy soldiers or nuclear arsenals threatened American or European …

… Her worst sins took place three years ago, and they were comparatively minor. She’d distributed leaflets, yelled “Gestapo” at the Zomos. She and her husband had also sheltered, for an evening, an underground activist, but … woke to find the phone lines dead, the airwaves silent, soldiers in the street. Her husband strung wires in a web …

… published, which had helped him get into UVa’s highly competitive MFA program. At the time, however, the VQR had a … Blackford, the journal’s esteemed, 28-year editor who died in a June car accident just one week before he was to … receive his master’s degree at Texas Tech University, while also working as an editorial assistant and project …

… watched the crapshoot long enough to know all the various combinations on the dice. As their similar spellings might … a gift. Better people than you have gone without it. Age also means that I’ve lost enough friends and relations to … liberation, a gift for which one might willingly suffer and die.  To be an ordinary person with “nothing left to do” is, …

… fled and took refuge at this shelter: a pair of rubber sandals and a light sleeveless cotton dress with no bra. She … meals. The menu is simple but substantial; it’s often a combination of grits, boiled plantains, lentils, and … in with a lot of white rice—the bedrock of the Haitian diet. The nurse on shift doles out medicines to those who …