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...Meanwhile, the metro, the jewel in Transantiago's crown, is creaking under the strain of twice as many passengers as before. "We used to be proud of our metro," says student Andres Carrera as he shuffles on to a crowded platform. "Now we just make jokes about...
...John McCain - too much of a maverick to ever be a G.O.P. favorite, and yet a year ago the presumptive front-runner - crash-landed his campaign this summer and is only now showing signs of an unlikely resurrection. His friend Fred Thompson materialized in midsummer to catch McCain's crown, but he fizzled fast. Romney became the party's default darling, spending his way to the top of several polls. But now he too has taken hits for being slippery, and what counts as momentum has passed to Huckabee, a former Baptist preacher from, of all places, Hope...
...Facebook Files,” which also includes documents being used as evidence in the court brawl between Facebook and ConnectU. The founders of ConnectU, another social networking company founded by former Harvard students, allege Zuckerberg stole the idea behind Facebook from them. The crown jewel of the 02138 postings is Zuckerberg’s application, a hand-written (what happened to tech savvy?) document, in which Zuckerberg reveals his passion for fencing. “Amidst a hectic week of work, fencing has always proven to be the perfect medium; for it is both social and sport, mental...
...with life insurance fraud and making false statements to procure a passport. He will appear Monday before a magistrate's court in Hartlepool, near the couple's home in Seaton Carew, in northeastern England. Darwin could face up to 10 years for the fraud charge, a spokesman for the Crown Prosecution service told TIME...
...World and donate his fortune to a new seminary college founded in 1636—came the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell and the rise of Puritan rule in Britain. One of the first orders was to ban all theater, viewed as a wicked pastime of the corrupted Crown. In 1642, Shakespeare’s beloved “wooden O”—The Globe Theater—was closed. But by 1660, the Puritan government had collapsed and Charles II took the throne, ushering in the Restoration and a renaissance in the dramatic arts as theaters were...