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Beginning at around 6 p.m., proud Adams resident and FM columnist Vinnie Chiappini clambered into a turquoise lifeguard chair and heckled mercilessly into his megaphone at non-residents from his perch. Those denied swipe access were given mere seconds to scan the dining hall for a friendly Adamsian face before Chiappini and his helpers broke into a rousing chorus of a hearty tune as the meek freshman or quadling slunk away in red-faced shame...
...singling out of foreigners as at the Taj and Oberoi. "We went inside the railway station threatening the commuters and randomly firing at them," he says in his statement. Qasab and Khan left after less than an hour, using the footbridge made famous by Slumdog Millionaire - the perch from which, in the film, Jamal looks for Latika. Qasab's only instructions were to find a building with a rooftop where they could take hostages and attract the media. They headed west out of the station, and nearby, Qasab spotted their next target, a pink seven-story building...
...profile, splitting their time between the ranch and their new home in Dallas. The former First Couple did drop in at the Coffee Station, the local café, during a recent Lions Club breakfast meeting. Bush answered a few questions and shook some hands while Laura sipped coffee. Today, Ronnie (Perch) Smith, a road builder and horsebreaker, is finishing a plate of the Coffee Station's signature Bush Wings--chicken breasts stuffed with cheese and jalapeños, wrapped in bacon and fried--which enjoy broad bipartisan support. Smith doesn't talk politics much, although in the summer of 2005, he says...
...Letting the cool ocean breeze wash over me as I looked out at the Caribbean from the bar's perch on an antique turret, caipirinha in hand and a well-heeled crowd of European and Latin American dancers twisting before me to the ever present salsa, I couldn't have agreed more: if there exists an antithesis of Afghanistan, Cartagena...
Ideas aimed at kick-starting this process include giving everyone who buys a house a tax credit worth 10% of the purchase price and driving down mortgage rates--perhaps to as low as 4%. They're an effort to push fence sitters off their perch and give a head start to folks who are finding that tighter lending standards mean they can't borrow as much as they might once have...