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...Probably what draws Frank and Laurel together is their mutual capacity for truth telling, which may also explain why Laurel doesn't have a boy friend. Most guys don't much like women who lack the winsome gene. That's not a problem for Frank, and the course of their love and his rehabilitation runs relatively smoothly. This is in contradistinction to life in the Krzeminski mob back in Buffalo. They are being decimated by the rival O'Leary gang, whose sneering, sadistic leader (Dennis Farina) is in no mood to take prisoners. A sober Frank's odds-balancing presence...
...made the case that there are other motivators to drive people to create economic growth beyond what Coase or other economists would have said in previous generations," Palfrey said. "He has helped us explain what’s going on with the open source world and phenomena such as Wikipedia and how it is that the Internet has facilitated or amplified the extent to which people create things when they’re not just getting paid money...
...change of heart was so powerful and so organic that at first I chalked it up to hormones. What else would explain my reaction if he approached while she nursed, which was to bare my teeth and snarl? Soon my ferocious protectiveness soured into tired irritation. He shed on her burp cloths. He bayed as she napped. He developed a taste for diapers. Our relationship deteriorated to a cycle of infractions followed by scoldings. Before I knew it, I had withdrawn from him his exalted former status. In the span of a few months, I had demoted him from...
...most of the books explain, the Mob had ample reason to want Kennedy out of the way. As early as 1957, he sat on the Senate Rackets Committee chaired by Arkansas' John McClellan; Robert Kennedy was its chief counsel. The Kennedys joined in the committee's stiff grilling of such gangsters as Los Angeles' Mickey Cohen, Louisiana's Marcello and Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, whose underworld ties presumably led to his murder...
...death. Since then it has handed out $150 million in grants to more than 350 projects and organizations focusing on issues like palliative care in Africa and raising awareness of the problems facing young refugees. Other charities can spend huge amounts of time and money just trying to explain to governments and the public what it is they do. With Diana as its silent spokeswoman, the Fund needs no introduction - everyone knew Diana and the causes she stood for. "We're very small compared to foundations the size of Gates and Buffet, which are spending $3.5 billion a year," says...