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...thought the traditional Jewish matchmaker went out of style with Fiddler on the Roof, SawYouAtSinai.com has 35,000 love-seeking, Orthodox Jewish singles who beg to differ. Online dating sites are nothing new, but unlike eHarmony and its nameless algorithms, SawYouAtSinai employs an army of actual, flesh-and-blood matchmakers, charged with scouring the site's database in search of potential soulmates...
...asked him to step down. That is because all the other leaders are doing similar things. In Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Chad, Djibouti and elsewhere in Africa, leaders have a great deal in common with Mugabe. Some spend millions on themselves while their people remain vulnerable to starvation, then beg for foreign aid. Our forebears set our nations free from the colonial powers. These days Africans need liberating from our own leaders. Mahad Dirieh, Djibouti...
...Specifically, defense attorneys have strategically been known to cry on cue and beg for their clients' lives," the motion states, meaning the attorneys are "appealing to the emotion [of the jury] instead of reason." The filing cites a 1999 capital case ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court that it is "improper to inflame a jury's emotions by crying...
Perhaps only in Cannes would hundreds of people crush into lines, beg for tickets, offer to rent various body parts, for the chance to see the new Woody Allen film. The 72-year-old writer-director is long past his renown as America's wryest, most prolific auteur, let alone the King of Anarchy title he achieved with his early, funny movies; that Allen keeps making films is deemed by most of his compatriots an act of will, almost defiance, by a man whose genius evaporated some time in the late...
...friends bought rice and water, loaded it on a truck, and drove deep into the delta. She was shocked by what she saw: roads lined with hundreds of cold and hungry villagers, disregarded by their own government, who had walked for an hour from their broken villages to beg from passing motorists...