As soon as she graduated, Anwar Sadat dragged her and the classmate said to be responsible to a penghulu, who could officiate at the wedding.

I used to have a sign on my desk that said, The Buck Stops Here. The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.

This violently antigypsy diatribe, which brings together all the racial and ethnic stereotypes held in sixteenth-century Spain, was duly withdrawn from the elementary school reader...

It is part of Skinner’s argument that men with wider political and economic horizons will operate within areas defined in relation to higher-order market centres; and it may follow from this that the great lineage groupings maintained in the case of the few dominant ‘surnames’ in the southern part of Hsin-an county (such that local lineages very widely separated were grouped together) were dependent on the fact that the influential leaders of these local lineages had an active interest in the superior market town of Sham Chun, which now lies just to the north of the frontier between China and the Colony of Hong Kong.