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Unlike most of the village women who embark on careers with foreign men, Noelline is educated, has completed two years at the lycée run by the sugar refinery at Ankazobe. She writes a fair hand in French orthography, can use a computer, and speaks good French and Italian. Besides her intelligence, her undeniable energy, and a reputed genius for sex
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relative value trades and convergence trades.
Ludwig B. Chincarini • The Crisis of Crowding
Chef, deutsch optiert, auch wenn dieser schlauer
Joseph Zoderer • Wir gingen: Erzählung (Raetia Club) (German Edition)
both cases, psychology proved critical. Napoleon’s delusion was to believe in military strategy and underestimate the role of morale; his generals failed to appreciate that Russian citizens battling for their lives on their home soil had far greater incentive to fight than did a poilu from Paris yearning for the Champs Elysées. The LTCM strategists
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Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order
He is a white man, the kind that Shay defines with the Malagasy word vazaha, although the word simply means foreigner, and she herself can also be defined that way. But in her mind the word denotes the kind of tropic-bespoiled white man who hangs out in the Fleur des Îles café and, in Shay’s opinion, is far too often a guest at the Red House.
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In the war zone sweet, slovenly, unwashed little Lina with her tear-stained face, advanced alone, Prince of Homburg style:10 My noble uncle Frederick of Mark Brandenburg! Natalie! Hold, hold! O God of Heaven and Earth, now he is quite undone, no matter, no matter! She shot off, making a bee-line for the stand of the white-haired man. Franz, long-su
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