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Iron willpower, secretiveness and stubbornness make anorexics almost impossible to help. And Freeman was determined that no one was going to outsmart her at this game. ....
We were on lockdown parole, and my word we failed dismally A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd Sue de Groot Deputy features editor: Sunday Times 09 January 2021 Some might look at the reintroduction of stricter lockdown measures as the consequences of us (or at least some of us, for which the rest are also being punished) having violated our parole conditions. We promised to be good but we were not. We promised to wear masks, stay away from others and wash our hands constantly, but we did not. FREE TO READ | Just register if you’re new, or sign in. ....
This year has been a strange one for the world of books. Covid meant that bookshops were closed for much of the time, which meant that readers were denied the joy of browsing, and the affiliated pleasure of judging books by their covers. In turn, we authors were denied most of the usual ego-boosts normally associated with a new book: no launch parties, no literary festivals, no search, fruitless or otherwise, for your book on the shelves of Waterstones, no trips to out-of-the-way radio studios for a two-minute interview on BBC Radio Umbrage. The upside of it all was that more books were read than ever before. It was often said that comfort reading was all the rage – but then again, most books provide some form of comfort. ....
The space of 24 hours. are you surprised how suddenly the gadhafi regime has crumbled in the capital? we were very surprised. very surprised. we had expected a very bitter fight for tripoli a city of 2 million people, and remember that gadhafi has been saying that if the rebels enter tripoli, there would be a bloodbath and they would burn tripoli and kill libyans, and his forces crumbled, demoralized, and melted away. and this tells you a great deal about the propaganda that moammar gadhafi tried to sell to the libyan people in the international system. i think that what the fall of tripoli shows very clearly is that dwfd dgadhafi did not have major power base in tripoli and uprising below the surface, and basically the forces were demoralized and all it took was a spark and the city fell like a house of glass. it is remarkably quickly. ....