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OK, I'll admit it, I almost never read the Los Angeles Times (I'll tell you sometime the whole reason--it has to do with finding out how the paper is edited), but there was a cute story in there today about the police arresting seven people for feeding the homeless in downtown's Pershing Square.
Many papers have been reporting that one focus so far is Afghan-based Saudi Arabian financier Osama bin Laden, but this USAT story adds that a team of FBI and CIA officials went to Pakistan earlier this year to investigate arresting him.
An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as “a flimsy and frivolous erection,” while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself “beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.”
In 1983 he produced an elegant book with the unprepossessing title The Visual Display of Quantitative Information , which both explained and demonstrated certain rules for presenting numerical data in a graphically arresting manner.
The pitch to the Bosnians, both in private consultations with national leaders and in a public speech in Sarajevo, included Clinton's insistence on the importance of isolating and arresting indicted war criminals.