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...married to Shakespeare, but for 20 years I've been having an affair with Middleton. Shakespeare is the Bard Next Door your parents want you to love - respectable, familiar, stable, well-connected. I met him in high school and we've been together ever since. But Middleton - well, they don't tell you about Middleton in high school...
...process is simple enough. Every spring, just as the current captain of the Harvard men’s hockey team is preparing to graduate, the players and coaches of the Crimson elect a rising senior to serve as captain for the upcoming season. The vote is generally a straightforward affair, refined over the course of 109 years of Harvard hockey, and the new leader of the Crimson is usually chosen without a hitch...
...Indeed, the Mafia is still very much a family affair. Loyalty is ensured by blood rites and membership passed down through the generations of certain clans. The elder Lo Piccolo may have spelled his own doom by being in close proximity to his son for a summit on Monday. Provenzano, who evaded capture for 43 years, including a decade as Italy's most wanted man, famously lived in isolation, often in rugged conditions to better duck the authorities...
...said she was “very impressed by the city’s initial response to the problem,” but after an inspector found no points of entry for the rodents around the outside of her building, she said the city washed its hands of the affair. “Rats began coming in again, and I called the rodent hotline again, but I was told that at this point, there was nothing the city of Cambridge could do for me,” she said. “I think it’s a public...
Polish commanders say more aggressive patrolling, targeted raids and more robust civil affair missions and infrastructure projects have dented the militants' ability to mount such attacks in recent months, but Diwaniyah is still a dangerous place for foreign troops. During an emotional Catholic Mass Friday night after Cpl. Filipek's death, Maj. Gen. Tadeusz Buk, the commander of all Polish forces in Iraq, called for the Coalition troops in Diwaniyah to rally together in their time of grief. "Please, let me ask you to get even more united, even more strong, so that this sacrifice is not a waste...