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...late?Winehouse looks a safe bet for an early grave. After a 2007 full of well-chronicled erratic behavior ranging from mumbled concert performances to a drug arrest in Norway, her in-laws pleaded for a public boycott of her music so that she and her equally troubled husband, Blake Fielder-Civil?currently in jail for attempting to bribe a bartender he allegedly assaulted to drop the charges?might be deprived of the income they spend getting wasted. One day in December, Winehouse wobbled out of her London home at 6 a.m. wearing only jeans...
...senior Sam Wollner followed suit with wins in the 200 and 400-meter freestyle. Sophomore Mason Brunnick touched the wall just over a second behind Wollner for a second-place finish in the 400. Junior Eric Lynch took first in the 1500-meter freestyle, with teammates Alex Meyer and Blake Lewkowitz taking second and third, respectively. Twin brothers Bill and Dan Jones finished 1-2 in the 100-meter butterfly and 2-3 in the 200-meter butterfly...
...cute. The social isolation that endearingly cute tiger cub and proverbial ugly duckling Leo faces as the runt of his litter should give hope to every Harvard student who’s ever had an “awkward balloon!” moment. 5. Joan Aiken and Quentin Blake, “Arabel’s Raven”: The stories of lonely English schoolgirl Arabel and her pet raven, Mortimer—who solves mysteries and incites mass upheaval in Arabel’s household while continually croaking, “Nevermore...
...This is the most extensive effort to reach out to new constituencies in the Iowa caucuses, I think, ever," says Blake, who comes from the Bronx and was in the first class of "Yes, We Can!" a program Obama started soon after he was elected to the Senate to train minorities to more effectively use the political system. "Campaigns here have traditionally gotten attention for going after one or two groups. We're applying that principle and hopefully will enjoy similar success with multiple groups...
...Over the last eight months, Blake, with the help of his staff of about 25, has been developing what he calls peer-to-peer contacts. Veterans call veterans, high school students call high school students and so forth. Seven staffers reach out to black voters, for example, and three handle Latino voters - even though Latinos make up only 3% of Iowa's population of three million and there are only 67,000 blacks in the whole state, according to the 2006 census. "[This] is exactly why it's a problem for the Clinton campaign to bring in 100 new staffers...