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...himself, the son of one of the Emperor's intimates. He is handsome and graceful and charming, and irresistible to women. He is also unable to resist his own fancies?appetites would be too crude a word for them, although he does manage to get the Emperor's favorite consort pregnant. This is not good news even in a poly-gamous world. Early on, the narrator wonders whether she should be telling us all about Genji's naughty doings. "No doubt," she solicits, "I must now beg everyone's indulgence for my effrontery in painting so wicked a portrait...
...years. Surprisingly, her latest song is about how love conquers all CONAN O'BRIEN Conan the Non-Barbarian close to getting $7.5 million deal to re-sign with NBC. It's nice to finally see someone from Harvard make good Losers PRINCE HENRIK Queen of Denmark's consort feels slighted by other royals. Lucky Danes don't settle grudges with poison, incest or petard-hoisting anymore RUDOLPH GIULIANI His Ex-Honor criticized by fire and police unions for attending premiere of Collateral Damage. And then he actually had to sit through the film JAMES BROWN Employee sues Soul...
Several times a week a bus stopped at his shelter and unloaded men newly released from prison. Studies have estimated that 30% to 50% of big-city parolees are homeless. Sanders was surrounded by the very people his parole conditions forbid him to consort with. But parole also demands that he have an address, even if it's a shelter. One day, while Sanders was taking a shower, someone broke into his locker and started selling his underwear--brand new pairs he had got from the state when he left prison. His new washcloth also vanished. "You might think...
...might think a kiss that generated so much attention would be sexy, shocking, or at least involve two sets of lips. As it happened, the first public peck between England's PRINCE CHARLES and longtime consort CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES was a rather chaste affair. The eruption of unbridled cordiality occurred at a charity event in London given by Parker Bowles. Upon greeting, she and Charles fleetingly brushed both cheeks. No knees were weakened, no monarchy fell. Nevertheless, pictures landed on the front page of virtually every British newspaper. The prearranged public display of affection, which perhaps not so coincidentally happened...
Complexity theory was born in 1984, when brainiacs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory founded the Santa Fe Institute. The SFI remains a cauldron of Ph.D. sorcery, where physicists and biologists consort with psychologists and anthropologists, all in pursuit of the patterns that underlie the adaptive systems around us. "The bigger story," says Susan Ballati, SFI's director, "is not about Bios Group or SFI or other offshoots; rather, it is how a complex adaptive-systems approach to looking at the world is really what will be driving policy, business, education and research in the 21st century...