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...world) gave him enough time to kill them. Although the novels and the early Bond movies took place during the Cold War, their villains were rarely Soviet operatives; they were closer to those freelance fruitcakes of pulp fantasy fiction, Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless. Issuing dreadful warnings, plotting mass destruction from remote redoubts and sending their thugs to do the dirty work, the Scaramangas and Ernst Stavro Blofelds of Bond fiction could have been the secular antecedents of Osama bin Laden...
Feeling confident, I sent a mass e-mail to family and friends instructing them to vote yes or no on each one without any comment, a request they all ignored. All of them also thought it was clever to suggest their own first names. Also, I learned that when my mom receives an e-mail that upsets her, she immediately calls. "The only name I like is Jeff if you spell it with two f's instead of t's," she said. "You cannot do this to my grandson. I'm just trying to protect this poor unborn baby...
...Vegas, you can get cash, booze, even a wedding license at a drive-through, so why not a flu shot? With a record 140 million flu vaccinations expected to be administered this year in the U.S., hospitals and health clinics from Norwood, Mass., to Randolph County, Ala., have started offering drive-by shootings, using concern about the regular old flu to help prep for outbreaks of potentially far graver diseases like avian flu and anthrax...
...were brought here to win an Ivy championship and that’s our goal,” freshman forward Andrew Van Nest says.Van Nest was one of the Crimson’s top recruits, but the 6’10” forward, who hails from nearby Weston, Mass., will not set foot on the court this year because of a shoulder injury suffered last week that will require season-ending surgery.He is joined by six healthy freshmen. Max Kenyi, a 6’4” guard from Silver Spring, Md., will likely see significant playing time this...
...United States, it is a rare thing to hear calls for the overturning of clear majority opinion. But subjective mass sentiment has progressed too far when it is permitted to so carelessly meddle with the documents on which state and federal government are founded. Given that constitutions are meant to push back against fickle and sometimes bigoted democratic movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect...