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CHRIS ROCK After a model filed a paternity suit against the comic in 1999, Pellicano allegedly had cop friends run an illegal background check on her. DNA tests later showed that Rock wasn...
Coxon also said Payzant’s background in taking educational research and converting it into policies will make him a valuable addition to the GSE faculty...
...members of In Vino Veritas, it was business as usual.“Okay, guys, we’re going to get started,” third-year law student Tom Brown, who led the wine-tasting that evening, says, clinking together two tall water bottles. Background chatter died out as the members, still students in the truest Harvard sense, folded hands in laps and faced forward, listening attentively to the introduction of the wines. The group would taste six different wines that night—spanning such geographic expanses as the wine fields of Northern Italy?...
...come in as a surrogate President and say what I believe matters, because frankly what matters is what the Administration has decided to do, and that I will express as forcefully as I possibly can." Snow was making it clear for now, no matter how different his style or background may be from his predecessors, he has the same ultimate boss - George W. Bush...
...have missed it, but that dull, thudding sound in the political background over the weekend was Republicans pummeling Democrats on, of all things, corruption.That's because last Friday, the top-ranking Democrat on the House ethics committee, West Virginia's Alan Mollohan, was forced to step down temporarily from that post over charges of - what else? - unethical behavior. And Republicans didn't miss this golden opportunity to pile...