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...Though Virginian by birth, Wolfe has made Manhattan his home for decades, and while he still uses his drawl for dramatic effect, it usually lies dormant. On the one hand, Wolfe casts an ironic eye on modern culture and preaches a return to more brutal instincts. On the other, he lives the life of a foppish Manhattan novelist. Like Pappy Mason, Wolfe says his soul has been wrankled by challenges to his manliness. Wolfe's example: once in New York, during a snowstorm, another man took a cab from him and he had to wait a long time for another...
...weekend witnessed the re-emergence of junior stars, center Steve Moore and winger Chris Bala. Moore and Bala finally displayed their full offensive potential that was frustratingly dormant for most of the season...
There were warning signs. Back in December the FBI and a number of private security firms began detecting countless dormant daemons cropping up on servers across the country. Scan yourselves with detection software, urged the hacker trackers. Evidently not enough sites did. That changed after the attack; downloads of the Feds' scanning tool shot up from 170 on Monday to 4,223 on Thursday...
...Number of dormant Swiss bank accounts, according to a 1995 Swiss investigation...
...Number of dormant Swiss accounts held by Holocaust victims, according to a recently released independent-panel investigation...