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They were a fairly odd "father-and-son." The grown-up was intensely lonely, had worked at a pizzeria for 25 years where he tended to talk all day, particularly about video games. The "son," his face studded with the occasional piece of punk jewelry, loved the loud, awful music of the shock-rock group Insane Clown Posse, banging on the walls of the apartment they shared, to the consternation of the neighbors. Few suspected that the relation might have been born of a crime...
...tough as nails. She knows what she wants when she goes into a meeting. She's decided beforehand what's possible and what isn't." Daniel Ayalon, ex-Israeli ambassador to Washington, who has been friends with Rice for 10 years, adds, "She has gravitas. She's grown into this job in a magnificent way. She has toughness and grit...
...more than three years later, after Summers had grown disillusioned with Kirby’s leadership, the president privately asked Faust if she would be willing to replace Kirby, The Crimson reported. She said...
Most Somalis have grown accustomed to such anarchic conditions. But what's ironic is that before the Islamists were expelled by the Ethiopians, they had managed to impose a semblance of law and order on the capital. During its six-month tenure, the Islamic Courts Union (I.C.U.), an alliance run by Muslim clerics and several warlords, with the backing of key clans, had lifted roadblocks and cracked down on crime. Even Gedi admits that the I.C.U.'s restoration of security "attracted the support of the people...
...millions of dollars in research money have poured in and Louisville now welcomes an incoming student class with much higher test scores, but those fortunate enough to be accepted must pay a much steeper tuition; in just the last three years, the annual in-state undergraduate tuition has grown 40%, to $6,252 this academic year. "We have had to raise tuition each of the last four or five years," says University of Louisville president James Ramsey. "And in most of those years, there has been a double-digit increase. That is not something that we have enjoyed doing...