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...reunions to find an old flame. They use Classmates.com to look up the one that got away or someone they always had a crush on," says Pepper Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington and the author of Finding Your Perfect Match (Perigee). "They bump into each other and find a reconnection easy and immediate. Although there are no numbers, anecdotally it seems quite common that people are connecting with old loves...
...Russian president make clear that he sees himself in command of a rising power, casting off the degradation of the 1990s and asserting its own interests even where those bump up against Washington's. He also called for expanded investment in Russia's arms industry, suggesting it was "premature to speak of the end of the arms race...
...wrest even more power away from the Foreign Office, especially over Europe policy. This chimes with suspicions that Blair is trying to create a de facto but supercharged Prime Minister's department, allowing him a freer hand in areas important to his legacy. But another reason for Blair to bump Straw, says a longtime Labour aide, is Straw's slightly more dovish attitude toward Iran, "a nuance that is deeply felt" in Downing Street - where, despite a pledge to step down this term, Blair wants to stay in charge as long...
...whole life has been a speed bump." HILLARY CLINTON, Democratic Senator from New York, on failing to achieve her childhood ambitions of becoming an Olympic athlete, an astronaut, a doctor, a scientist or a mathematician...
...commander of the Sri Lankan army, Lt.-Gen. Sarath Fonseka, was leaving his nearby office for lunch. Eyewitnesses say Kugenthirasah walked away from the clinic and strode toward Fonseka's heavily guarded convoy. A motorcycle outrider spotted her, says military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe. Her determined manner, that bump-it didn't look right. The outrider swerved, blocked her path and, when she kept coming, dismounted and kicked her to the ground. As she lay there with Fonseka's car a few feet away, a blinding flash erupted from her belly. Nine people died and 29 were injured. A 10th...