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Besides this one objection, the punching event went over rather smoothly. Unfortunately, the D.U.’s policy proved more difficult to crash. The club president explained at the time that alumni ties would prohibit such a drastic change in tradition. Two women had been punched into the club during the early 1970s but were refused membership when several influential alumni withdrew their financial support as a result of the incident...
When I first offered to let Yasir Arafat stay with me in Old Quincy, I thought I was just doing the right thing. I have extra room in my suite, and he needs a place to crash now that Sharon is giving him the boot. But from the moment he came through the door he did nothing but complain...
...Khalifa's high-spending business expansion. The remainder was entrusted to El Khalifa Bank by private individuals - personal savings accounts the government will cover only up to €9,200. While Moumen's spectacular ascent may have been a vicariously wild ride for Algerians while it lasted, the Khalifa crash and burn is a calamity they'll be paying off for decades to come...
...high-speed car accident. The last member of the trio, Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, officially "died of thirst" while traveling east of Riyadh one week later. And seven months after that, Mushaf Ali Mir, by then Pakistan's Air Marshal, perished in a plane crash in clear weather over the unruly North-West Frontier province, along with his wife and closest confidants...
Cult-classic science-fiction novel--check. Comic novel about environmentalists--check. Best-selling thriller--also check. What is there left for Neal Stephenson--author of Snow Crash, Zodiac and Cryptonomicon, among other novels--to write? The answer is The Baroque Cycle, a stunning 3,000-page trilogy about 17th century scientists that will defy any category, genre, precedent or label--except for genius. (That's right, I'm using the g-word...