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...would have been hard not to know about it, as the move has been chewed over at length since it was first mooted last October. The maneuver, an attempt to staunch the flood of illegals that critics blame for a rise in violent crime and other social ills, was delayed until the end of January and again until March 1 after last-minute negotiations with Indonesia, where most of the illegal workers are from. Anyone unlawful found in Malaysia can now be fined, imprisoned or even beaten...
After defeating Blumberg in three games, Grigg played a five-set match in the semifinals against third-seeded Vaidehi Reddy, of Trinity, and defeated her, 9-4, 9-2, 6-9, 4-9, 9-7. The length of the semifinal match might well have caused her to run out of gas in the final against Quibell...
...years Length of time by which U.S. women outlived men in 2003, a decrease from 5.4 years...
...hiding places and children splashing in clover. Even if we have never been there, we know what it looks like. Maybe it is the change of season, or something in the social climate, but suddenly it seems as though all around the country people are going to any length to find their garden: to read about it, visit it and, if at all possible, create it. Mailboxes bulge with gardening catalogs, groceries grow on windowsills, cranes hoist trees onto city rooftops. From coast to coast, nursery owners say their business has doubled. -- TIME, June...
Thompson never held himself at arm’s length from his subjects; he bear-hugged them (even the druggies and rapists) and then wrote about it. His journalistic philosophy was rooted in the existential philosophy of Heidegger, who posited the collapse of the subject and object; Doc believed that the observer of a situation necessarily becomes an agent in that situation. He wrote himself into his stories, and gave birth to gonzo journalism. He’s still the only Rolling Stone writer cooler than the cats he wrote about...