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Some names benefit from a temporary faddishness. Selena was languishing at 780th place in 1990, but rose to 300th by 1994 as the fame of Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla grew. The name vaulted to No. 91 after Quintanilla's murder in 1995 but has since settled back to 352. Diego has enjoyed a similar bump, going from 186th place to 68th in the last decade, perhaps due to the popular boy sidekick in the ubiquitous Dora the Explorer cartoons. Designer Paloma Picasso may be giving a similar - if subtler - bump to my own daughter's name, which has gone from...
Chenoweth did all he could to have it swing the Crimson’s way. But while the race for first place was a blowout, the meet as a whole was tight until the end, when Harvard came through, 26-29. Chenoweth pointed to a team-wide strategy to start off fast...
...have to respect the place where you work,” he says. “Every time you do some work you need to know the stone, what it needs. You try to do a treatment so that you will save the piece for the next generation, to preserve...
...This is not acceptable” Fiorentini says, shaking his head sadly. “This place needs to be taken care of more often...
...sentenced for this crime, instead choosing to flee the country on the fear that his transgression would be met with a prison sentence. Justice was never served, and it does not have an expiration date. The administration of justice may be 30 years late and may only be taking place now because of Polanski’s celebrity, but this is merely a reflection of the unfortunate fact that not everyone who escapes justice is punished, not proof that people who escape justice for long enough should be rewarded. Nor should justice pander to peculiar circumstances or Academy Awards...