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...books, films, language, biking, kayaking, soduku, and the chance of grandchildren are a few of the possibilities that await. Only sweethearts like my Paula need apply. Love, Vinnie.” “Seeking magnetic spark, great connection and lively meeting of the minds. Effortlessly stunning PhD with keen intellect, damn good sense of humor, lots of range and depth. Slim, sophisticated, successful and unpretentious. Divorced, Midwestern transplant with light heart and genuine warmth. Enjoys skiing Alta, NY weekends, DVDs and BBQ, Santa Fe, Paris, Kathmandu, coastal Maine, speaking Spanish, fabulous lectures, champagne and oysters. Seeks confident, simpatico...
...vice versa. Daily Hist and Lit work involves understanding various primary and secondary source “texts”—which can be anything from cartoons to hard-core literary theory to musicals—through the context of their historical framework.But this friendly community of keen minds is a far cry from the Brady Bunch. It’s an Honors department with a capital H, meaning that you have to write a thesis to graduate, as well as pass an oral examination at the end of your senior year. Graduates tell themselves that a Hist...
...Richards, a keen student of the new media age, turned the state treasurer's slot into a statewide platform and built a loyal following among the agency's bureaucracy. She did such a good job at broadening the position's reach that it later became a path to power for other female Texas politcians including U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. In 1988, half way through Richards' second term, she took that confidence and her persona to the Democratic National Convention, wowing everyone with her silver hair and stiletto tongue. Her famous poke at then Vice President George H.W. Bush - "Poor...
...posh portside restaurant. "As the leader of the race, it's not her job to bat around ideas with the challengers," explained Malek Boutih, a member of the party's National Secretariat. "She has to concentrate her power for the battle ahead against the right." Many are keen to remind her that it isn't yet her battle to lead. Party members will not choose their standard bearer until November. But opinion polls suggest Royal is by far the most popular of the left's possible candidates, and the only one who could beat Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, leader...
...London in July 2005. What was particularly disturbing was the social background of those responsible for the atrocities--the successful and the foiled alike. Some of those responsible for bombing the London Underground, for example, were British born. Shehzad Tanweer grew up in Leeds and was a keen cricketer. His father owned a fish-and-chips shop. And it was not only the sons of prosperous immigrants who were being attracted to terrorism. Two of those arrested for their suspected role in the Heathrow bomb plot were Muslim converts. One of them was the son of a deceased Conservative Party...