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...month. Weird August. Hallucinatory August. The month that the world escapes from. Not coming in like a lion. Not known for its showers. Not known for its flowers. Not busting out all over. Not. There is no August Song, and if there were one, it would be sung by Yma Sumac in an altitudinous register no one could hear but a dozing dog, who would cock not an ear, stir not a bone. Not. These are dog days, after all, in which the mind, suddenly deserted, goes nuts and nowhere...
...Marcoses, however, leaving may be the best revenge. In the manner of deposed royalty, they have apparently taken the lion's share of their wealth into Hawaiian exile with them, together with their imperial habits. Last week the Pentagon reported that the cost of transporting and supporting Marcos and his retinue had come to $450,000, thanks in part to the $500 long-distance telephone bills run up each day by the party. As the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations debated the merits of entertaining the exiled dictator in such high style, Marcos reportedly was looking for a haven...
...family gets to be--or gets stuck with being--the primary caregiver. Whether that means stopping by Dad's to run errands, nursing an Alzheimer's patient in the spare bedroom or responding to late-night calls from the nursing home, one adult child usually does the lion's share...
Quoting Jared Diamond’s latest pop historio-sociological study, “The Lion, the Witch and the Demographic Catastrophe,” University President Lawrence H. Summers will claim at a conference in 2010 that short people may be genetically predisposed to be short. He will not release the transcript of his remarks until groups representing the vertically challenged around the country call for his resignation...
...lion on the Serengeti doesn't go after the strongest antelope. The predator goes after the weakest." RONALD ZONEN, prosecutor in the Michael Jackson trial, in his final summation to the jury deciding whether the pop singer is guilty of child molestation