The papers reveal in part Parsons' early interest in social evolutionary questions.

I collect autograph books, and those of you authors in the audience know I hound you for them and CDs too, Tracy.

Houphouet s fondness for money and power was plain from the outset, and his regime offered no exception to the dismal African rule of corruption, fraud, cheating, cronyism, embezzlement, and weak law enforcement.

The government s fixation on weiwen, or stability maintenance, has resulted in China becoming the world s only important country whose official internal security budget is larger than its official national defense budget.

Thomas Blyton ignited Enid's interest in nature in her autobiography she wrote that he loved flowers and birds and wild animals, and knew more about them than anyone I had ever met .

Howard's about this high, and he's round, and he's in his 60s, and he has big huge glasses and thinning grey hair, and he has a kind of wonderful exuberance and vitality, and he has a parrot, and he loves the opera, and he's a great aficionado of medieval history.

Given all of this, as well as Chávez s penchant for spectacular antics and the Cubans skill in taking the diplomatic offensive, the ALBA countries may be preparing some major Latin American mischief.