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...been known to flirt with higher literary flights, notably in The Club Dumas, but in his hard-boiled, mordantly funny, unapologetically entertaining Captain Alatriste series (of which this is the second volume), Pérez-Reverte firmly buckles on his swash and swaggers into the muddy, bloody streets of 17th century Madrid. It's a poor but proud city where tempers run high and everybody is ready to stab and/or shoot one another at the drop of a plumed, foppish hat and where a woman has just been found strangled in her sedan chair, along with a pouch of coins...
...Azad Kashmir has strengthened the precarious cease-fire and forced the Pakistanis to open up. On the mountainsides where thousands of refugee tents have sprouted between collapsed buildings, the U.S. military is delivering drinking water to camps run by "Axis of Evil" nemesis Iran; U.S. and NATO soldiers flirt with Cuban nurses. But the most surreal partnership of all is between the U.S. military and Islamic militants from groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba, branded by Washington as terrorists. Bemused to find himself at daily briefings in Muzaffarabad with U.S. and NATO military commanders, one Pakistani militant leader, Haji Javed...
...laying an egg at BC, and the losses to BU and Central Connecticut were not particularly embarrassing. That leaves the 67-56 defeat at Lehigh. It’s fair to say that Harvard wishes it could have that one back. If this Crimson squad is lucky enough to flirt with the school-record 19 win mark, that might be a contest that Harvard could sorely regret.Grade: BLOOKING AHEADWith a matchup with Southern Methodist next Tuesday the last game standing between Harvard and the Ivy portion of the schedule, it’s time to take a look...
...possible.The “thrilling” plot—which aspires to twist and turn but really lurches and falls off the tracks—is, ostensibly, the story of dissatisfied corporate executives Charles Schine (Owen) and Lucinda Harris (Aniston) who meet on a Chicago train and cautiously flirt before attempting an affair. Their unfaithful tryst is interrupted by a mugger who beats up Charles and rapes Lucinda; the mugger is actually an overtly villainous and obnoxiously French criminal, Phillippe Laroche (Vincent Cassell) who, with the help of sidekick Dexter (Xzibit of “Pimp My Ride?...
...founding of her new clothing company, Big Feet Pajama, with her winnings at the casino tables. "I'd go with my husband on Friday and Saturday nights, dressed to the nines in my stilettos," she relates. "The guys would look at me like dead money--sure to lose. They flirt with you to keep you at the table--until you start winning. Then they get very quiet...