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...dollars in aid and investment, the Khmer Rouge found itself on the sidelines politically and economically, unable to buy the motorcycles and television sets that were proliferating across the country. A small trickle of defectors in the early '90s became a flood by 1996, when cadres in the gem-mining town of Pailin, the other principal Khmer Rouge base, joined the government side...
Anyone who thinks romantic comedies are formulaic hokum is probably all too easily proved right. But every once in a while, a gem comes along to silence the cynics. Director James L. Brooks has crafted a warmhearted modern fable with a prickly sense of humor. Jack Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience...
Abeles' drama almost overshadows the dominant effort of senior pitcher Tasha Cupp (10-3), who tossed a three-hit, 12-strikeout gem in the opener. A three-run home run by junior Tara LaSovage was the game winner in the first game...
...Faces of Death" video series (eighth grade angst): Soon-to-be Marilyn Manson-ites learned the beauty of bloodshed watching angry bears attack fat campers in this gem...
...this one by factors. The first gem has only been touched once, because one only has itself as a factor. The second one has been touched twice, because two has two factors. In fact, all of the numbers have an even number of factors, except for the perfect squares. So only the gems in the positions of perfect squares will kill...