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...effectively frozen--and a city-council member has been convicted (although he remains free on appeal)--as a result of a scandal in which local officials accepted cash bribes from a strip-club owner in exchange for promises to try to change a city law to allow hands-on lap dances...
Then I entered college and woke up. I discovered that I had been tricked into believing that invitations to tea and lunch would magically fall into my lap, that the most memorable part of college was the interaction with great minds rather than the interaction with alcohol, and that the direction I was to take in life would be a clear one as soon as I met the right people who would tell me just exactly what it was that I was supposed to do. The truth of the matter is I’ve barely...
...their trips to the developing world, however, the dynamic changes. Talking to women in hovels about condom use, Bill sits with his hands in his lap, nodding robotically, while Melinda leans forward to ask questions and hold babies. On the first day of their trip, after flying all night to Dhaka, Bangladesh, from Seattle, the Gateses visited a place known as the Cholera Hospital, where they are helping fund groundbreaking research on pneumonia. On their tour, they walked into a room full of 30 crying babies and their mothers. All the babies had cholera, and they were lying on gurneys...
...strip at its original, giant tabloid size (16x21 inches!) with meticulous re-coloring that duplicates as closely as possible the subtle hues that rolled off the presses 100 years ago. "So Many Splendid Sundays" is a magic formula for instant regression as you cradle a huge book in your lap and stare, open-mouthed, at the dazzling color, wild visual imagination and enchanting stories of "Little Nemo...
After their first week working with Matt, the Chrises of Bell Lap fame adamantly refused to work with any other of the FM junior photo execs, claiming that the rest were, “too d-baggy to work with,” even though they had yet to meet any of them. We’re glad to welcome Conroy aboard, whose newly acquired knowledge of poop, toilets, and striking out with women will prove vital to the morale of the board...