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...Under as much pressure as the All Blacks is rugby itself, which can ill afford a tournament full of messy, dour, defence-dominated matches at the pointy end. If that happens, calls to revise the laws to give the attacking side more room will be hard for the game's guardians to ignore. With days to go, the signs point to a close-fought event; but to the relief of the All Blacks' hard-marking countrymen, they also suggest that a historical anomaly - and a nation's frustration - are about to be dispatched...
Remus Lupin sat in the chair in the teacher's lounge closest to the coffee booth. He stirred his magically around with a finger, taking a long sigh in and a long sigh out. He knew that tomorrow he would start feeling ill again (since it was only three days from the full moon), and he really didn't feel like getting sick. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair and looked deep within the black, bitter coffee with a blank expression...
...That feeling, which more and more Guatemalan mothers and adoptive mothers in the U.S. are experiencing these days, reflects the growing awareness that adoption in Guatemala is all too often a multimillion-dollar underworld trade. The nation's ill-regulated adoption business, run by private lawyers and notaries, is rife with corruption, including forged paperwork, payoffs to women who agree to hand over their children and, in some cases, newborns stolen from hospitals or mothers' arms, according to the government human rights ombudsman's office. One U.S. couple spent almost two years and $50,000 to adopt their Guatemalan daughter...
...first two years I was ill at Oxford, I had no friends at all. It was very painful. I was unable to work. Somehow my analysis with Mrs. Jones [her psychoanalyst] in England interrupted those kind of negative symptoms, and I became able again to work and make friends. To me, friends have been one of the main things that have kept me doing well. But in terms of romantic relationships, when I became ill, I went seven years without a single date. I was so tortured by my internal demons that there was no space for another person...
...much of the summer, Art Bunting says "it was getting dry" near his corn and soybean farm in Dwight, Ill., about 80 miles southeast of Chicago. Between the drought and rising demand for corn to produce ethanol, "some people were worried we weren't going to grow enough corn," he says. Now, however, it's a different story. During next month's harvest, Bunting says he expects a higher yield of corn - partly because he increased the amount of acres he's devoted to the crop, but also because the recent "good weather" has helped kernels of corn get plumper...