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...Lazio has ripped both Clintons over its price 4. According to the Supreme Court, the Boy Scouts can bar them from being troop leaders 8. The Gift of the Magi gift 11. Singer DiFranco 12. Orsk's river 13. "Later!" 14. The run-up to its election was tainted by violence 16. Bear up? 17. He's home at last 18. Applies with a Q-tip 20. U.S. Middle East mediator 23. Online brokerage firm that just went decimal 26. Nautilus sites 29. Stephen King beast 31. Day-__ 32. Prosecutors must tell his lawyer which nations they believe he tried...
Having just locked up a sizable second round of venture capital, Della & James (from O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi) has become an object of both envy and contempt among other start-ups. ("You can't even call them a start-up anymore," grumbles a friend and fellow entrepreneur.) Herrin, 26, and Lefcourt, 30, come off as the girls who were too smart to talk to you in high school. Herrin had an outline for her wedding-registry business even before she entered Stanford in the fall of 1997. "I wanted to do something entrepreneurial," she says...
...surprisingly, the Rebbe's solution causes as many problems as it solves, and after a series of funny and uncomfortable dialogues with two prostitutes and a cab driver, the story ends with a sorrowfully ironic twist rather similar to that in O'Henry's "The Gift of the Magi." Alternately poignant and humorous, this story is perhaps the best in the collection...
...Lives of Superheroes" drops some very educational tidbits about the intimate lives of the Superpowerful Ones, investigates the habits of the psychologically disturbed and gives us a devilish retelling of that noble, classic love story, "The Gift of the Magi." You could even argue that this is a learning experience, a combination of sex and information that could even rival the notorious stacks of Widener...
Here the Queen of Sheba once ruled. Here the Magi bought frankincense and myrrh. Here Arabian trade routes crisscrossed, bringing exotic spices, precious cloths and treasures from the East. Here too in 1967 devout Marxists won independence for their moonscape land at the mouth of the Red Sea. After 128 years of British colonial rule, they were determined to use the precepts of socialist orthodoxy to yank a remote Arab nation into the 20th century. The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, set up a Moscow- style government and forged close ties with its mentor...