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...funny if it's not offensive." And: "They've got to name names." One woman at Tommy's told me that I needed help figuring out who the "popular" people were. Of course, I hadn't heard the word "popular" applied to another student since I left North Cumberland Middle School. Another hard-core Adams woman taped her own in/out list, written on two Maxithins, to one of our doors...
...year later fell as low as $66; before the rights plan was unveiled, they had climbed back to $120. "If you're a longtime Time Inc. shareholder, with this plan you've once again been moved to the back of the bus," complains Richard Reiss, managing partner of Cumberland Associates, an investment firm that holds Time Warner shares...
...fascinating to see how prototypes from older art were adapted to the artists' ends. Thus the motif of Moses leading the Exodus becomes Bingham's image of Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap toward the promised land; thus the buckskin-clad immigrant and his family are consciously meant to evoke Joseph, Mary and Jesus on the flight into Egypt. The religious imagery sometimes amounts to a suffocating pietism, but that was America too. It still...
...wager small sums, is not necessarily bad. Compulsive betting, however, almost always involves destructive behavior. Last fall police in Pennsauken, N.J., arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of burglary. The youth said he stole items worth $10,000 to support his gambling habit. Bryan, a 17-year-old from Cumberland, N.J., recently sought help after he was unable to pay back the $4,000 he owed a sports bookmaker. Greg from Philadelphia says he began placing weekly $200 bets with bookies during his sophomore year in college. "Pretty soon it got to the point that I owed...
Souther had aroused suspicions before his defection. Graduating from high school in Cumberland, Me., in 1975, he enlisted in the Navy and was trained as a photographer. Based in Italy at Sixth Fleet headquarters from 1979 to 1982, he married an Italian woman. They later separated, and in 1986 his estranged wife approached a Navy officer to report Souther as a spy. Souther had too much extra money, she claimed, and took Government documents home in violation of regulations. Authorities initially dismissed her accusations as an ex- wife's spite, but now suspect that Souther was recruited...