Word: closeness
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...Tintin's fundamental ambiguity extends all the way to his sexual orientation. He never appears to have any close female friends (with the revealing exception of Madame Castafiore, a campy opera diva whose path he crosses several times). And to complicate matters further, he's constantly having quasi homoerotic relationships with young boys whom he befriends in foreign countries. Tintin's physical appearance is itself gender-ambiguous. What are we to make of his distinctive cow lick, which is neither particularly masculine or feminine...
Though they considered postponing the wedding or having it in the U.S., Markovic and Stokes have decided to keep the wedding close to her family, holding it in the cathedral where she was baptized and where her family priest can preside...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataAccording to the New York Times, AT&T is close to inking a partnership with the House of Gates in which Microsoft, for $5 billion, would get a 2 to 3 percent slice of AT&T. More important, Microsoft would get the only thing it likes better than cash: market share, via a commitment from AT&T to use Windows software in every set-top Internet/phone/cable box that AT&T will be running wires into. Is the new Ma Cable moving a little too fast? Not if the deal was Microsoft's price for staying...
Debate class has become dangerously close to reality. The House has always had well over the two-thirds majority required to ratify an amendment reading "The Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States," which was passed by the Senate judicial committee last Wednesday. The Senate was three votes short of a two-thirds majority last time the topic came around, but now the Senate may achieve the number required for passage due to the retirement of one die-hard opponent and waffling by some who voted against it the last...
Both teams look to the next few weeks as the season draws to a close. The women's team will be competing at New Englands and ECACs in a few weeks, while the men's team competes in IC4A's towards...