Word: alamo
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...every year at Harvard. It’s hard to say why I got hooked on THE_REAL_SHAQ. It might have been the random, personal confessions, or the innovative language, or the direct conversations with many of his more than 500,000 followers. When Shaq was at the Alamo a few weeks ago, he said he was going to buy a squirrel tail hat; after one desperate follower begged him not to, Shaq listened, writing, “ok for u I wnt buy it.” (PETA would be proud, Shaq!) For whatever reason, I started counting...
...think ran Citigroup (C) into the ground. He said recently that the bank had been profitable for the first two months of the year. If this week marks the bottom of the stock market and the beginning of the end of the recession, his words will join "Remember The Alamo" and "The British Are Coming" in the history books. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...there's more than one kind of rousing. The last night at the Alamo was also stirring. Some rousing speeches were delivered in the trenches of the Somme. Given the dreadful litany that began his address, McCain couldn't quite shake the shadow of existential gloom...
...Arkansas Child-Porn Raid More than 100 state and federal authorities raided the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in Fouke, Ark., as part of an investigation of child pornography and abuse. Six girls ages 10 to 17 have been taken into custody by the Arkansas Department of Human Services. Alamo, a convicted tax evader, claimed that the investigation was part of a government push to legalize same-sex marriage and that when it comes to sex with young girls, "consent is puberty...
Perhaps some Iraqi and American commanders hoped for an Alamo scene in Mosul, the guerrilla movement's last urban stronghold in Iraq. But it appears the insurgents have decided to melt away rather than take part in the "decisive battle" Maliki vowed to unleash months ago when Mosul reemerged as an insurgent haven...