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...months, but the new director, Catalina Pestana, told parliament that there may still be pedophiles in the Casa Pia system. Officials estimate that more than 100 boys and girls, some of them deaf and mute, may have been sexually abused. The government has promised to let Pestana take a broom to Casa Pia. Doing so would help Prime Minister José Manuel Dur?o Barroso, whose Social Democratic Party ousted the Socialists in March last year, make good on his vow to bring life and honor back into Portugal's public institutions. The Casa Pia scandal should give him plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Late than Never | 5/28/2003 | See Source »

...Quidditch World Cup (Electronic Arts, all platforms, Winter 2003) The latest game for Harry Potter fans, Quidditch World Cup pits national teams of broom-bound wizards against each other in arena-sized aerial pursuit of the ball and the game-ending golden snitch. One problem posed by the books-if the team that caught the snitch always wins, what was the point in scoring goals?-is answered here by a slight tweaking of the rules: each goal scores 10 pts, and the snitch is worth 150. And yes, you get to play as the lightning-scarred Hogwarts hero himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Time to Play | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...correspondent found a safer way to report on the war. Radio Swaziland's Pheshaya Dube gave a number of "live" reports purporting to be from Baghdad. But when he was spotted in the nation's capital, Mbabane, he admitted that he had, um, been phoning in from a broom cupboard in his house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Other War | 4/6/2003 | See Source »

Climbing painfully down into the XS-1 as it lay in the airborne belly of the huge mother ship, a B-29, Yeager snapped the cover shut using a sawed-off broom. At 20,000 ft., he dropped out of the bomb bay with a jolt. With all four rockets firing, the plane started shaking violently. The Mach needle edged up past 0.965, and then it went off the scale. Yeager was thunderstruck. He was flying supersonic, and "it was as smooth as a baby's bottom: Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade," he said later. He half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oct. 14, 1947 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...guy’s name] is being an asshole. I was laying on his floor, really comfortable. he kept on poking me w/his foot and w/the broom. it hurt. i’m not going to his concert. hes such an asshole. he’s not thoughtful or considerate. i’m so mad. fuck. he was literlally poking me really hard. we are officially starting a fight from today. i’m not going to his concert on Saturday. it hurt. physically. alot. what a cock. i can’t believe him. fuck. bithch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As Follows | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

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