He jabbed at the crease I'd made through the center of the Great Leader's face and did his best to uncrease it, while scolding at me in Korean as if I were a horrid barbarian imperialist.

Harper finds the idea that Latin developed into the modern Romance languages too implausible to believe.

You got a big ol' booty.

But Firdous e Bareen, an instrumental track, provides a clue about the flavor of mysticism in play--it shares its name with the paradisial garden reputedly maintained by Hassan ibn as-Sabbah, an 11th-century missionary of the esoteric Nizari sect of Shia Islam, for the indoctrination of his Hashshashins.