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...that went along with the human-rights award he got from Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi last week. Unless the Nation of Islam leader manages to overturn the decision in court, we'll never know how he would have behaved as the world's first black billionaire flake. Assuming Gaddafi actually intended to hand over the loot, it would have been quite a show...
...addition, editors said that Zevin'sportrayal of Nathan was inaccurate. Zevindescribes the R-W as flustered, emotionallyunstable (he shows an exhausted Nathan sending anote to Aker saying, "I hate Alp. I loathe Alp. Idetest Alp.") and something of a flake as well,pointing out numerous times the 'Harvard is hot'T-shirt Nathan wears and emphasizing a few of hisill-phrased quotes...
Transmission failure results when parts of the transmission flake off and clog the plane's engine, preventing the pilot from keeping the blades running. The plane spirals out of control and crashes to the ground...
...successive baronet to commit one crime a day or be killed. Ruthven left his brother, Despard, back at Ruddigore to assume the title of baronet and fall victim to the curse. Meanwhile, having adopted the clever pseudonym "Robin," Ruthven falls in love with the village sweet-heart, the prissy flake Rose Maybud. For the rest of the first act, Ruthven competes with his unlikely foster brother, the salty sea-tar Richard, for Rose's hand. The first act is also plagued by the appearance of Mad Margaret, a woman supposedly crazed with love for Despard, who comes off less...
...Cowlings, is appearing less and less mysterious. An L.A. County district attorney told TIME he interviewed Dunton in late 1987 while prosecuting a jailhouse murder. "It was clear he had zippo credibility," recalls the D.A., describing Dunton as "a wannabe informant" and worse: "He's a flake...