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...dismissive smile. I had the privilege of covering Corriero all winter as she racked up a Division I single-season record 59 goals and led the Crimson to the national title game. Her nomination, though an impressive acknowledgment from one of the definitive sports authorities in ESPN, seemed a mere footnote to a historic season...
Mohammed Bouyeri's trial for shooting, stabbing and almost beheading Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh seemed a mere formality. The prosecutor's case was watertight and Bouyeri had instructed his lawyer not to act in his defense at last week's trial. These expectations were overturned when Bouyeri, 27, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan origin, made a surprise statement at the close of the trial. Clad in a black jellaba and Palestinian-style black-and-white kaffiyeh head scarf, Bouyeri aimed his words mainly at Van Gogh's mother, Anneke, who had expressed her anger and contempt for the defendant...
...show, possibly in the context of race relations. Give us a break. The shop was closed. How many of us have raced to a store just as the CLOSED sign went up? Instead of expecting others to cater to her, Oprah needs to get real and join us mere mortals...
...Charles Hotel, guests who purchased the “Harry Potter package” (for a mere $299 per night) have the privilege of fishing their room keys out of an authentic Sorting...
...exceptions. Mrs. Blossom, an attractive young lady of mysterious background appears halfway through this first volume to create some tension with the determined bachelor Walt. These sorts of plot developments - another involves a phony oil futures huckster - give the strip a narrative drive that take it well beyond a mere joke a day about cars and kids and into soap opera territory. The other major female character arrives after Walt goes through several comically inadequate nannies. He settles on Rachel, an unfortunately stereotypical black "mammy" character. Yet, taken objectively, even the caricature of Rachel is in keeping with the pervasive...