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...next year or so Rochester enjoyed what Greene calls "the most creditable period" of his life, when he was able to watch the frivolous Court without sharing its decadence. But after his marriage to Elizabeth Mallet in 1667, he fast became the hellish rake at Court--the king's jester who was banished at least three times for poems about the king and his mistresses, such as "The History of Insipids...
...Roman Catholic cathedral to protest government corruption. The complaint was familiar enough, but the specifics were startlingly new. In a document that quickly circulated throughout the country, priests charged that Thieu had profited handsomely from housing and land deals, that his wife Nguyen Thi Mai had taken a rake-off from running a hospital that admits mostly well-to-do patients, and that his brother-in-law Nguyen Xuan Nguyen had made hundreds of millions of piasters in fertilizer speculation...
...louse, known as Pediculus capitis, is the size of a pinhead: it lays its eggs, or nits, on hair follicles and lives by sucking blood from the scalp. With generally improving personal hygiene, pediculosis has been waning for many years, and the fine-tooth combs (used to rake lice out of the hair) once found in most households with children have become a rarity. But outbreaks occur at unpredictable times and places. Anderson's epidemic was unusual because it was citywide, and many teachers became, literally, nitpickers...
TIME has learned that at least two of Beall's witnesses, Wolff and Matz, have accused Agnew of extorting campaign contributions from state and federal contractors in Maryland. Sources close to the investigation said that some of the rake-off methods were quite sophisticated, including one plan in which contractors favored with government business awarded fake bonuses to employees in the know, always being careful to deduct the proper withholding taxes, and then scooped them back for secret donations to politicians. The contractors in question worked on, among other things, state roads and two huge bridge-building projects...
...cleaning it," one father remarks mournfully as he scoops debris from the large plastic tank. Neatness counts. A youth, balancing in the boughs of a scrawny tree, is picking dead leaves. "My dad thinks it's a good idea to take all the leaves off the trees and rake up the yard. I think he's crazy...