The one thing missing is the interactive lisp shell of emacs; but here too, Larry Clapp (quod google) has written vim and perl scripts for communicating between vim and a lisp (maybe only CMUCL) process.

The mountain lakes are fed by streams that are frozen in winter but change overnight into raging torrents – the turbulent habitat of the torrent duck.

I cannot believe that Christ himself intended that his religion should be so inelastic, so hard and fast, so cruel as you imply.

The erratic behaviour of Hariri now is largely explained by the fact that his best days may be behind him, given his long absences from the country for security reasons, his declining Saudi business interests, some local challenges to his tepid leadership in recent municipal elections, and his decline in stature in the eyes of his Saudi backers.