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" A recent poll of Asian public opinion shows that relatively few countries thought China will supplant the U.S. as the world 's largest power in the next decade . This " great benefactor " of the Palestinian people gave $ 10,000 to the families of routine " martyrs " and $ 25,000 to those of successful suicide bombers . " Interspersed about the room , crossing and recrossing in endless irregularity , were innumerable benches and desks , black , ancient , and time-worn , piled desperately with much-bethumbed books , and so beseamed with initial letters , names at full length , meaningless gashes , grotesque figures , and other multiplied efforts of the knife , as to have entirely lost what little of original [ page 33 :] form might have been their portion in days long departed . It is , perhaps , scarcely necessary to add , that all the suggestions attributed to Brewster and Herschel , in the beginning of the article , about " a transfusion of artificial light through the focal object of vision , '' & c ., & c ., belong to that species of figurative writing which comes , most properly , under the denomination of rigmarole . The " Flight of Thomas O'Rourke , '' is a jeu d'esprit not altogether contemptible , and has been translated into German . Now , lest I should be supposed more of a madman than I actually am , I will detail , as well as I am able , the considerations which led me to believe that an achievement of this nature , although without doubt difficult , and full of danger , was not absolutely , to a bold spirit , beyond the confines of the possible . The " flight '' is made on an eagle 's back , from Hungry Hill , a lofty mountain at the end of Bantry Bay . Such a long-term , resumed " trusteeship " is required to return Somalia to good governance . They will scarcely be so weak as not to ' realize , ' in time , by large purchases of houses and land , with other property of intrinsic value . " February 1 , 2005 — The radical differences in the ways governments approach poverty is the crux of research by Edward Glaeser , director of the Kennedy School ’ s Taubman Center for State and Local Government . At the hearin ' of this , ye may swear , though , I was as mad as a grasshopper , but I remimbered that I was Sir Pathrick O'Grandison , Barronitt , and that it was n't althegither gentaal to lit the anger git the upper hand o ' the purliteness , so I made light o ' the matter and kipt dark , and got quite sociable wid the little chap , and afther a while what did he do but ask me to go wid him to the widdy 's , saying he wud give me the feshionable inthroduction to her leddyship .