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...during Tolkien's lifetime describing his remarkably rich and cohesive Middle-earth world of men, dwarves, elves and orcs has left fans rabid for [an error occurred while processing this directive] any scraps of the voluminous unpublished writings the master of myth and fantasy left behind. So hobbitheads worldwide broke out flagons of mead in celebration after Houghton Mifflin's announcement that, next spring, it plans to publish Children of Hurin, a tale that Tolkien tinkered with throughout his lifetime but never finished. The story follows two human siblings and their attempt to evade their tragic fate by overcoming...
...first it seemed clear-cut: when a tape recorder caught Hungary's Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány saying his party had "lied morning, evening and night" about the state of the economy to win re-election in April, protests - many of them violent - broke out across the country. Commentators around Europe attributed the eruption to the passion of outraged [an error occurred while processing this directive] citizens of a former dictatorship who expected more from their elected leaders. But according to Gyurcsány's supporters, there's a more partisan root to the clashes as the country...
...prices were one-sixth their current level and Moscow was strapped for cash. "This is what happens when Russian oil companies have their headquarters at the Kremlin," says Robert Amsterdam, the lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head of Russian oil company Yukos, which authorities seized and broke up in late 2004. Remarks by a top official at Gazprom, the national energy monolith, just two days after Shell's setback, fueled speculation that it was trying to get a big piece of the Sakhalin projects; in a speech, deputy director Aleksandr Ananenkov laid out a broad vision for that...
...blown out of proportion,” he said at the time. “And the actions were the result of the tenseness of the situation.” ***Both incidents were overshadowed by the arrest of Thomas on June 5. The night of the Senior Soiree, Thomas broke down the door of his ex-girlfriend’s dorm in Currier before falling asleep on the floor. Witnesses say that senior fullback Mike Lucas told them that Thomas was “quite drunk and needed to sleep it off.” When the woman returned...
...made receptions a goal.When Holy Cross head coach Tom Gilmore was asked how he planned to contain Dawson, he responded that he would have to put an extra man on the field. He recalled a time when three guys on the defensive line got through to Dawson, but he broke each tackle and ran for 75 yards on the play.Those types of plays have led many to believe he has enough talent to play professionally.Count the Canadian Football League among the believers.Last year his hometown team, the Toronto Argonauts, drafted him No. 47 overall. But his ultimate goal...