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Brett Zemba provided mission-planning support, GIS mapping specialist from Sheboygan County's planning department, who produced mapping images with coordinates that will be used by the B-52 air crew.
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But Haven has no formal boundaries, Zemba said, so Whistling Straits is neither within it nor outside it.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Though the narrative regards him positively while he is in Quinn's service and loyal to him, remarking several times on his courage and burning desire for freedom, as soon as he's placed in charge of the 'City of Marvels,' Zemba is described as a tyrant.
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When they arrive at their destination, a leader emerges from within the population, Quinn's servant Zemba, an escaped slave.
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Falcon in particular resents him, considers him bloodthirsty and even, when Zemba tries to prevent him from leaving the city on a research expedition, sniffily replies that "I am not your slave."
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This transformation, from victim of exploitation to its perpetrator, is sadly not an unexpected one, and had the novel carried it through I might have less to complain about, but Zemba dies heroically for the City of Marvels, his previous excesses forgotten as he hands over the responsibility for his people to ...
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Danielle Nauman/Maddy Zemba (Sudlow Intermediate), The Smoke Ring
QCOnline Metro News 2010
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It's a story that might have been more palatable if the past storyline had had more room to breathe -- if we'd gotten a chance to know Zemba as a complicated person, or to fully feel Falcon's dedication to the city -- but this plotline is truncated, almost the highlights of a longer historical novel (such as Barry Unsworth's
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