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...course of action (holding the formal in Lev) and reneging when the results didn’t go as planned.” In response, HoCo issued an apology for the confusion of having two surveys and dispelled the notions of HoCo dictatorship, claiming to have Lev unity in mind and citing financial obstacles and low survey participation rate (286 out of about 650 Leverites) as problems...
...rehabilitation center by retelling (or rather, recreating) the lives of the various alcoholics. A typical truck driver becomes the Most Wanted Terrorist in the World; a hairdresser and musician becomes Don Juan the Rib; and a particularly religious patient becomes the reincarnation of John the Baptist.In his mind, alcohol is Jerzy’s muse; as long as he drinks he will have material to write. Jerzy takes no time to avoid drinking again after leaving the center; he hails a cab to the bar whose title the novel bears. But the Mighty Angel is a name that Jerzy attributes...
...League.“One day, I got a call from Harvard,” Jones says. “It was kind of funny because I didn’t know my parents sent my highlight DVD to Harvard. It wasn’t really in my mind.”In the end, the chance to receive more playing time as well as a renowned education was too good to turn down, and Jones arrived on campus ready to make a statement. So far, he has, and opponents and teammates alike have started to take notice...
...vivid recollections of each trip, combined with personal anecdotes and interesting tidbits (did you know that every Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. has a relic?), provide a fascinating look into an ancient and complex topic. He writes that when he saw the first sonogram of his daughter, his mind immediately wandered back to the relics he had seen and studied the world over. "Perhaps it was a renewed interest in all that is implied by the word miracle," he muses. "Or perhaps it was the experience of seeing the component parts of a human being in a state...
...small office in Kathmandu, the Gurkha Army Ex-Servicemen's Organization, which has been campaigning for pension parity between retired Gurkha and British soldiers, says it is ready to "declare war" with the government should the Prime Minister change his mind again. About 3,500 Gurkha soldiers are now serving Queen Elizabeth II, but tens of thousands apply to serve each year from Nepal's poverty-stricken Himalayan hills. Candidates, scrambling for a few hundred spots, have been known to try to fake their way; in 2008, nearly 500 false applications were detected, and dozens of candidates - required...