The three giant potbellied frogs squeezed into a tiny desk built for children. They sat to his right, at a desk borrowed from the primary school the court martial was hosted on its playground. Idiots who owed their existence to the President's insane plan of 'professionalizing' the army. Of fools who returned from exile to assume powerful military positions. The mark of cowards who had no experience in battle. The symbol of girly soldiers who spoke English instead of Swahili. He loathed the prosecutor's uniform, that plain green shirt of educated officers. You could mistake it for fear, especially when he eyed the prosecutor who stood directly opposite him. Even after standing for three hours in the heat, the only sign that it troubled him was the frown on his face. In defiance to the sun, Mande did not sweat. It suspected the soldiers were only putting on a show and would release Mande when public interest in the case evaporated, so it tried to execute him. After thirty minutes without word of his whereabouts, the sun became furious. The trial ended, but the firing squad could not proceed.
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Why is she in all those one star reviews held up and judged as a woman and not a human being? Is that not the essence of feminism? If so these dumb broads are the ones who are anti-woman, not Chopin, who wrote this in 1899 for fuck sake! Is it that they would have accepted it in a male character but not from a 'wife and mother' because when I read these reviews that is what it looks like to me. Do these people only give high ratings to books with characters they like? Do they think women characters in fictional books shouldn't have flaws, ennui, and basically everything that makes a character good? They want the character to be human but lack any flaws, they want her to be a feminist hero but denounce her for not putting her children before herself. Ugh, women who criticize this as a feminist novel because the main character isn't a good mom and then base their ratings solely on how much they like the main character. And how ironic that all these reviews seem to be from women raging that this book (which they all obviously read for their 'gender theory' class) features a character who abandons her children. Why so many ugly one star reviews? All about as insightful as the ubiquitous one star reviews of Lolita which call Nabokov the man a child molester, raving morons who can't distinguish a character from an author and go beyond simply missing the point. Their goal is to re-balance the courts after there was a flurry of judicial appointments made by Republicans during the Trump era. So for Democrats, the one thing they can do in this moment is to try and appoint federal judges, a process that does not involve the House at all. And there’s no real hope of passing meaningful legislation. And this matters because the Committee is very important, especially in a moment when the government is divided. So the Judiciary Committee is facing a crisis and could come to a complete standstill soon if she doesn’t return. Today, my colleague Annie Karni on the growing political crisis surrounding Senator Dianne Feinstein.Īnnie, tell us about the drama that’s been unfolding inside this really crucial corner of the US Senate for Democrats, which is the Senate Judiciary Committee. And for now, there’s no simple solution in sight. This is “The Daily.”įor the past two months, a single lawmaker has prevented Democrats from carrying out their agenda in Congress. michael barbaroįrom The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. 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In 1920, the family moved to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where her father got a temporary job at the city hall. īefore Haasse's first birthday, the family moved from Batavia to Buitenzorg ( Bogor), because her mother's health would benefit from the milder climate. The Haasse family was not very religious. She had a brother Wim who was born in 1921. She was the daughter of civil servant and author Willem Hendrik Haasse (1889–1955) and concert pianist Katharina Diehm Winzenhöhler (1893–1983). Hélène Serafia Haasse was born on 2 February 1918 in Batavia (now Jakarta), the capital of the Dutch East Indies ( Indonesia). The museum was opened in 2008 on her 90th birthday. Haasse has the first Dutch digital online museum dedicated to the life and work of an author. In 1988 Haasse was chosen to interview the Dutch Queen for her 50th birthday after which celebrated Dutch author Adriaan van Dis called Haasse "the Queen among authors". Her internationally acclaimed magnum opus is Heren van de Thee, translated to The Tea Lords. Hélène "Hella" Serafia Haasse (2 February 1918 – 29 September 2011) was a Dutch writer, often referred to as the "Grande Dame" of Dutch literature, and whose novel Oeroeg (1948) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren. Historical novels, Dutch East Indies-Netherlands relationship A quick flip through these pictures brings a unique perspective to our own understanding of the US." -Amy's Book-et List "This book gave me some serious wanderlust.So many times we dream of beaches far away for our next vacation, but I think we're all guilty of realizing the beauty of our own backyards. 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