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...After Obara's arrest in connection with Lucie's disappearance, a sharper image of his personal life emerged. In contrast to his occluded public persona, Obara's private obsessions are delineated in excruciating detail. He wrote journals and dictated audio diaries on cassette tapes starting in the early 1970s. Police have leaked some of Obara's most incriminating entries to Japanese reporters like Mamoru Kadowaki of the Weekly Shincho magazine. According to Kadowaki one of Obara's most troubling entries, presented in vaguely poetic form, includes the lines, "Women are only good for sex. I will lie to them...
Brattleboro is one of Vermont's more liberal enclaves. Conservative farming communities, by contrast, saw a ferocious backlash shortly after the law's passage. Thousands of TAKE BACK VERMONT signs sprouted on lawns. Half a dozen town clerks quit rather than grant licenses to gay couples. Five state legislators who supported civil unions were defeated at the polls. But other civil-union proponents, such as Governor Howard Dean, survived, and the Take Back Vermont campaign eventually fizzled. Efforts by opponents to overturn the law have failed...
...contrast, Ford is so devoted to his wife Lisa and their four kids that he's been dubbed Ford's No. 1 "soccer mom." Last year he moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he is building a modest (by billionaire standards) house to give his family a more normal existence than the legacy-ridden conclave of mansions in Grosse Pointe. His current vehicle of choice (he has a garageful, including a couple of juiced-up Mustangs): a chrome yellow Ford Escape, the company's new compact...
...authored essays low in both idea density and grammatical complexity a half-century or more earlier. One of the lowest-scoring samples begins: "My father, Mr. L.M. Hallacher, was born in the city of Ross, County Cork, Ireland, and is now a sheet-metal worker in Eau Claire." By contrast, one of the highest-scoring essays conveys the same type of information but in a dramatically different way: "My father is an all-around man of trades, but his principal occupation is carpentry, which trade he had already begun before his marriage with my mother...
...includes both graduate and undergraduate student representatives selected by their peers in the appropriate duly constituted student organizations. A very small number of bodies include appointed student members who are not duly elected and several include one or a few graduate or undergraduate student representatives. This is in stark contrast to the situation at many other institutions, where both undergraduate and graduate students are automatically guaranteed representation on all university, faculty or department committees...