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Ms. Vaill nevertheless leans into it harder than previous biographers, who have characterized their mutual affection as platonic.

Administration officials have characterized the shift as pragmatic deterrence that forces Taipei to fund its own defense capabilities while avoiding symbolic gestures that could grant Beijing a pretext for a Ukraine-style conflict.

But there’s at least one way in which the mayor-elect does resemble his Indian peers: His politics are characterized by wild promises of government largesse detached from economic reality.

Whether this case’s resolution can be characterized as realistic is open to interpretation; as we said, it’s entirely fictional.

“These children are horrible,” Tolstoy shortly observed, thus displaying the deep insight into human nature that would characterize his later work.