We are told, for instance, that when Ilona disappeared she was working on "the protocol for immortality".
During my years of training, I was told, for instance, to control psychosis with psychoanalysis, which couldn't work.
We were told, for instance, that Japan wishes to return to imperialist adventurism of the sort that it displayed during the Second World War.
Train riders in the Northeast corridor were told, for instance, that they would have to show a photo identification to buy a ticket.
Stories are told, for instance, about buildings that refuse to allow ramps or handrails in their exquisite Art Deco lobbies, even though a gleaming marble floor can be a slippery hazard to an older person negotiating a walker.
Africa's farmers labelled it a "new wave of colonialism" because countries taking part in new alliance pilots are told, for instance, to make it easier for foreign corporations to buy up agricultural land and end trade protection.
We're told, for instance, that Obama hasn't done a good enough job of laying the blame for our current economic ills at the feet of George W. Bush, and as a result he's being held responsible for the economy's weakness.
This is not a slight on Sherborne's wealthier and/or more pious residents – I am told for instance that Sherborne Abbey is part of the town's Chamber of Commerce, which explains their stance on the affair – but it clearly reflects a whiff of apathy towards others in the town who are really straining under the weight of our current economic climate.
We are told, for instance, of Brigham Young's ban on dramas that romanticized monogamous love at his community theatre; as one of Young's followers says, "I ain't sitting through no play where a man makes such a cussed fuss over one woman".
We are told, for instance, that when Mansur was hunting for his new capital, sailing up and down the Tigris to find a suitable site, he was initially advised of the favourable location and climate by a community of Nestorian monks who long predated Muslims in the area.
