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...Nebraska and other big-time programs since taking over in 1994, has an eye for these sorts of things. Maybe he could sense the bloodlines—the grandfather who played for soccer’s Manchester United, the mother who played netball (a basketball derivative) in Britain, the aunt who played college basketball at Old Dominion and the sister who played scholarship ball at Wagner. Maybe he could see the raw ability of the school’s top striker in soccer or the agility of the shortstop who had been paid a visit by the Florida Marlins...
Nineteenth century psychiatrists coined a term for the irresistible impulse to swipe: they called it kleptomania, from the Greek kleptein, to steal. It was applied after the fact to Jane Austen's aunt, who was tried in 1800 for pocketing fancy white lace. By the 1920s Freudian psychologists, always attuned to underlying sexual drives, were comparing the rush from a successful filch to the pleasure of an orgasm. Experts today are more inclined to compare recreational larceny to thrill-seeking behaviors like bungee jumping or to addictions like drug abuse or compulsive gambling...
Potterites spend time speculating in detail about what events will unfold in books five, six and seven, and struggle over Harry’s family tree to link him to the evil, unshakable Voldemort. (“Maybe Voldemort’s third cousin was Harry’s aunt.”) They are slightly unhinged by Harry, and they know...
...killed last week after seizing more than 750 captives in a Moscow theater. Arbi Barayev, leader of the Chechen Islamic Special Units, famously oversaw the capture and beheading of four telecommunications workers--three from Britain, one from New Zealand--in Chechnya in 1998. Movsar also had an aunt in the rebel business. Khava Barayeva is revered by Chechen guerrillas for her suicide car-bomb attack on a Russian base in the family's home village of Alkhan-Yurt. She was 19 when she blew up herself and two soldiers in June 2000. Arbi was killed last June...
...whose name has not been released, had just been dropped off by his aunt, less than 20 ft. from the school door. Driving away, she heard a loud sound andturned around to see her nephew on theground. His science teacher, Karen Pumphrey, walked out to find the boy grimacing in pain. "I've been shot," he told her. Suffering from injuries to the spleen, stomach, pancreas, lung and diaphragm, he is in critical but stable condition...