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...anyone within a couple of feet of him. When we moved, he ran away for a week, but after my mom rode her bike around the complex he showed up at our door. It was a Stanley-Livingston moment of feline proportions: Zorro, I presume?When I was nine, another cat started appearing at our apartment. We took her in, named her Lady and promptly realized that there were two of her…and three kittens living in a bush outside our building. This led to the high point of animal inhabitancy: seven cats, three humans, and two goldfish...
...thing hasn’t: the Beantown nine are still a collection of likeable guys, guys that, despite the recent success of their franchise, are fun to root...
...imagine the situation I find myself in now, as my hometown Rockies are just hours away from playing their first-ever World Series game, a mere three miles south of the place I call home nine months out of the year...
...fair, championship football. Just as we in the Bay State love our starting nine, so Colorado relishes the glory days of John Elway and playoff pigskin at Mile High Stadium. The proudest Denver resident in our midst readily admits to a stronger allegiance to the Bronco orange-and-blue to the Rockie purple...
...just rob for the money. Many want to inflict pain on their victims, beating, raping or killing them. Of the 200,000 robberies every year, more than half are classed as "aggravated," meaning the victim was also assaulted. A friend warned me before I arrived in South Africa nine months ago, "This is political crime," meaning the violence is a form of revenge on those more fortunate than the perpetrators. In a society where violence until very recently was part of the grammar of politics, it can still be rationalized by its criminal perpetrators as avenging inequality...