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...Linda tolerate the prattle of a twentysomething as banal and needy as Monica? Well, they were both fat girls with hair and work problems, and Tripp liked hearing awful things about Clinton, whom she despised and wanted to write a book about. By turns manipulative and sympathetic to the heartbroken Lewinsky, Tripp at one point wants to kick certain presidential body parts and "flatten [them] into little pancakes so he can never use them again." She presses Monica to hold out for "a kick-ass job." She slams Currie for her "sheer stupidity" in not helping Monica to see more...
Last Thursday a Maryland appeals court upheld that ruling. Within a few weeks, Cornilous could be taken from the heartbroken Maryland woman with whom he has spent almost all of his short life and who wants to adopt him. The case has drawn national attention and fueled a bitter debate over the courts' strong bias in favor of "family preservation." Complains Bill Pierce, president of the National Council for Adoption: "It is not in Cornilous' best interest to be part of a social experiment to observe what might happen if Latrena Pixley is given one more chance...
When his teenage son was mowed down on the streets of Chicago by a reputed Latin King gang member, Stephen Young was heartbroken. When he learned how the triggerman got the gun, he was furious. The Bryco 9-mm semiautomatic handgun that killed Andrew Young was one of 40 weapons a suburban gun shop sold to a single purchaser. In gun lingo these are "straw buyers," shady middlemen who do a brisk business reselling guns to convicted felons, minors and others with itchy trigger fingers but no legal right to own a gun. "You want to tell me this...
...north as the place where jaded urbanites could come to bathe in a forgotten innocence--symbolized by the cool Tokyo dilettante who takes up with a local geisha. At the book's haunting end, the man is returning to his wife in Tokyo, suitably refreshed, and the country girl, heartbroken, is left with only memories. Therein lies the promise, and the danger, of what promise to be splendid Games...
...heartbroken that the Tasty is closing," Jones says. "It's a great loss for the Harvard Square community."The Tasty spans the 20th century, comforting night owls from the world over...