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...Lunsford, the Florida girl who was kidnapped and killed in 2005 by a convicted sex offender. Lunsford was born in Hoyle's district and attended school in the tiny town of Dallas, where Hoyle lives. He still talks to her father regularly; her cousin will serve as a senate page for Hoyle next year...
...Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer for it or where the question is to be found," wrote the Guardian's David Leigh in a historically obscure front-page article on Tuesday. "The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented - for the first time in memory - from reporting parliament...
...much anticipated E.U. report on last year's five-day war between Russia and Georgia held Tbilisi responsible for triggering the conflict but blamed Russia for creating conditions that helped spark it. Both sides claimed vindication from the 1,000-page document, which also found that Russian allies committed ethnic cleansing against Georgian civilians...
...Heller: "A month before her 50th birthday, she and Nathaniel received their partners' permission to meet for sex twice a week ... The affair provided excitement and deep fulfillment at a crucial, and essentially pleasureless, moment in her writing life." The book in question was Atlas Shrugged, her 1,000-page 1957 masterwork about the government's battle with captains of industry, led by John Galt, for control of the economy. The next year, Branden established an institute to promote Rand's philosophy of reason...
...Fountainhead, an epic novel chronicling the struggles of an architect named Howard Roark against conventional values, was her breakout work. In her race to get the sprawling 700-page book to press, she began taking the amphetamine Benzedrine to fuel her efforts. "Rand used it to power her last months of work on the novel, including several 24-hour sessions correcting page proofs," writes Burns. The book brought Rand financial security and fame...