Word: homely
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Vickers and his colleagues hope that by using plagiarism software, which they're currently applying to a study of British playwright John Ford's works, scholars may yet be able to settle many of the literature world's greatest authorship questions. But don't try this at home - this isn't something just anyone can do. Vickers has spent more than four decades studying Shakespeare, and he's devoted countless hours over the past two years reaching his verdict on Edward III. "You have to go on hunches - you can't just feed in all the numbers on every play...
...leaving me for a guy named Bob, whom he had met on Gay.com. Then, six days later, I was in a car accident. I was a mess, really, so I went to the only place I could figure out to go that wouldn't cost much, and that was home to the Mennonites...
...have evidence to indicate it was a publicity stunt," said sheriff Alderden on Sunday afternoon at a news conference in Fort Collins, Colo., "done with the hope of marketing themselves to a reality-television show sometime in the future." Officials had interviewed the parents and children separately, searched the home and computers and financial records. But by then we already knew. We had watched the family ricochet from one talk show to the next like marbles in the pinball machine, tripping the lights, ringing the bells, savoring the spotlight until the moment on Larry King Live when Richard asked Falcon...
...what had really happened, Falcon left the screen to go be sick; eventually he vomited on camera on Good Morning America. Richard, insisting this was no hoax, on Oct. 17 announced he would only answer questions submitted in writing and left in a cardboard box outside his home. It turns out that he and his wife had met at the Lee Strasberg acting school in Los Angeles. ABC News quoted his former business partner Barbara Slusser saying that he often put his kids in harm's way: "The last straw for us," she said, "was when Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane...
...House and Senate leaders have also been discussing extending unemployment benefits another month or longer and a program, known as COBRA, that helps the newly unemployed pay to keep their employer-provided health insurance. Other measures on the table include an extension of the first-time-home-buyer tax credit, which is set to expire on Dec. 1 and has helped stabilize the housing market this year. The White House has said Obama supports extending all three programs, though it remains unclear whether they would be offset with other tax increases...