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...beneath. "Yes, Fred. Get the tea." The tension screams out from the mundanity. Now all we get is some pretentious, self-proclaimed novelist giving us 50 pages of emotional history, followed by a long conjugal argument repeating the same. My interest usually lapses early on." Bob's childhood was rough. The lawnmower his father wielded intimidated him..." Yawn. Then we get mutual sexual histories. Yawn, yawn...
...Rough Weekend: Harvard is coming off of a less-than-super Columbus Day Weekend as the team tied Ivy rival Cornell 1-1 on Saturday and lost to intra-state rival Holy Cross 3-2 on Monday...
...Rough Weekend: Harvard is coming off of a less-than-super Columbus Day Weekend as the team tied Ivy rival Cornell 1-1 on Saturday and lost to intra-state rival Holy Cross 3-2 on Monday...
...diamond rush may be a dream come true for the garimpeiros, but it has turned into a nightmare for De Beers. The South African group, through its London-based cartel, the Central Selling Organization, controls 80% of the world's rough-diamond trade. In the past 17 months, largely illicit diamonds from Angola and elsewhere have been flooding the market, threatening to provoke a price collapse and forcing De Beers to spend so far upwards of $200 million to keep the gems out of circulation by buying them...
...alluvial-plain diamonds easier to find, Angola's rush was triggered mainly by the chaotic aftermath of civil war. Thousands of demobilized soldiers with no job prospects began scratching around for easy money. Legislation enacted in November permitting Angolans to trade in uncut diamonds was intended to soak up rough stones that people had illegally hoarded down through the years. Instead, because the move made it vastly easier to unload illegally dug diamonds, it further spurred the stampede to Lunda Norte. Cafunfo, a town of 5,000 on the Cuango River, mushroomed to 50,000 people, who live mainly...