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...first free election in four decades went off with few hitches and few reports of violence on July 30. Millions of voters visited 50,000 polling stations to decide between the 9,700 candidates running for parliament and the 32 candidates for the presidency. Despite early claims from minor presidential candidates that the vote was rigged, foreign election observers said the polling process was mostly free and fair...
...later, one of the brothers had another close shave when he stopped in a busy neighborhood to buy black-market gas. A car bomb went off 50 yards away, destroying his car. Luckily, he had stepped out of the vehicle to negotiate with the seller; he got away with minor shrapnel wounds. One tiny shard ripped into his shirt pocket in a direct line to his heart. The shrapnel arrowed through a thick wad of Iraqi currency and some loose paper and was finally stopped by his plastic ID card. "At last, I can say money saved my life...
...that anything as practical as making ends meet on fixed, reduced incomes is allowed to intrude on this fantasy. The seniors are all played by minor, aging actors of the semi-recent past (Dyan Cannon, Sally Kellerman, Brenda Vaccaro among them) and before anything like a plot gets rolling, the film has about it a not entirely attractive voyeuristic aspect. We don't really want to see the dreamboats of the past hull-down in the realties of aging. We know it must come to them - no matter how clever the cosmetic surgeons have been (or how bravely some...
...Palm Beach Police Department believed it had probable cause to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and of lewd and lascivious molestation, according to an affidavit...
...that was unsealed last week, Epstein allegedly solicited sex at least three times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last year. According to a police report, the Palm Beach Police Department believes it has probable cause to charge Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and of lewd and lascivious molestation...