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...give a damn about what's happening to us," said Angela Butler, 49, a school custodian who, after going on disability two years ago when she suffered a stroke, refinanced her four-bedroom Miami Gardens house to a lower, adjustable rate - only to see her monthly payment shoot up almost $1,100 this year. "All the dominoes are falling on top of us out here," Butler added, gripping her cane, "and they're just sitting up there behind their desks takin' care of the banks...
...insurgency and is accused of being behind numerous extrajudicial disappearances. In the Tak Bai incident of 2004, 87 detainees died while under army transport - most suffocated after being crammed into the backs of trucks. At the same time, insurgents have burned down more than 200 schools and almost 100 Thai teachers, symbols of central authority, have died. On Nov. 5, two car bombs injured over...
...they play all of your favorite songs. If you don’t like Bruce Springsteen, you’re un-American. And best of all, you get to watch freshmen awkwardly grope each other, unsure of the proper etiquette for grinding on a stranger. It’s almost as good as watching 13 year-olds play Snowball at your cousin’s Bar Mitzvah...
...short we didn’t learn much from our trip to Yale, but we know what to expect from these Yalies. They’re going to be different from you. I mean, almost as different as Leverett Tower G from Leverett Tower H. They’ll be wearing patterned scarves instead of solid colors and talking about how they study esoteric subjects like “economics” and “government.” Oh, and they’ll be drinking INFANT blood...
...pirates are lured by the booty. Almost half of the world's crude is transported by sea, and much of it passes Somalia every day. Insurance rates for shipping in the region are rising, and some vessels are taking longer routes around Africa to avoid the area. Because shippers abhor uncertainty and the risk it entails, they have been paying the ransoms - up to $2 million - demanded by the pirates. (And insurance companies can take comfort in their actuarial charts: only 1 in 600 ships in the area gets attacked...