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These are some of the less graphic/explicit passages in the story. Let's just say things get wilder when sex swings and an apparatus like the one above make their appearance...

Author: By FlyByBlog | Title: Fiction Erotica | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...born on the first day of the week and is represented by the golden hue. As the country has cycled through a seemingly endless parade of coups and governments, one constant has remained: each new leader has pledged allegiance to the King - and, presumably with it, the vast apparatus that supports the royal family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangkok Protests End; Thais Mull a Divided Nation | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...hearing will be a reduced stage for a man once wined, dined and courted by congressional leaders and Presidents - nearly all Republican - and backed by a large lobbying apparatus in Washington. He will appear not as a genius of finance but as the deposed chairman of a defamed colossus who still faces a civil lawsuit by the New York attorney general's office over accounting issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Looks to AIG's Greenberg for Help | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...misrepresenting and suppressing” science for political reasons. “Mr. Obama has surrounded himself with the very best scientific talent any president has had,” he said. “As advisers or heads of agencies, no president has drawn such talent into his apparatus.” McCarthy was not alone in his acclaim for Obama’s Monday announcement, which consisted of an executive order lifting the ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. It also included a memorandum that authorized John P. Holdren, director of the Office...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Reforms Promote Scientific Integrity | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...dumping Fidel loyalist Felipe Perez Roque as Foreign Minister and replacing him with a career diplomat, Raúl may be signaling a less political and more flexible tone for Cuba's foreign policy apparatus. Perez Roque, 43, a former personal aide to Fidel, is a pugnacious communist doctrinaire often referred to as Fidel's pit bull, more suited to El Comandante's policy of confrontation with Washington. (He once called himself part of the Cuban "Taliban.") His successor, Bruno Rodriguez, who had been Perez Roque's No. 2, is by contrast a more bookish foreign service veteran, a former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Lies Behind the Cuban Purge | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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