Word: dying
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...die, I die. So be it.' SARAH PALIN, on risking her political future by announcing on July 3 that she would resign as governor of Alaska at the end of the month...
...recently appeared as part of a Daily Show segment that treated the paper as a comical anachronism. How do you respond to those who seem eager for newspapers to die out? Tommy Giglio, CHICAGO...
...Americans who were counting on their (now shrunken) nest eggs to last through their retirement years. To supplement their stash, an increasing number of seniors are turning to reverse mortgages, which function essentially as a cash advance on their home equity, repaid only when they sell their home or die. The loans are available to those 62 and over, and lenders have to eat the difference if a home ends up declining in value. In the three months after February--when a provision in the economic-stimulus package raised the eligible home-value limit from...
...capable of witchcraft. You could blaze through her first novel, Liars and Saints, happily reach for the second, A Family Daughter, see that it's about the same family and prepare yourself for a sequel. Instead, what you get is the same saga, different narrative. Characters die in one book and not the other, have sex in one and suffer tormented lust in the other. Individually, each novel is well crafted and compulsively readable. Together, they're a meta-authorial head game that makes you rethink the nature of fiction and your attachments to it. I'm still not over...
...dealing in their communities. But they reserve the right to use righteous violence against anyone who betrays or crosses them. "Those who commit mistakes are tied up for a long time. If the mistake is grave, they are tortured. If there is loss of trust and treachery, they must die," a cartel spokesman called El Tio (the Uncle) said in an interview printed in the newsmagazine Proceso. The spokesman gave the interview sipping tequila in a restaurant while three armed bodyguards sat at the next table...