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...woman who married dear old Granddad: silent in the face of a raw pursuit of power and pleasure. When the marriage ended, Sheila didn't utter a peep, not even asking for alimony. For the sake of the children, she stayed in the Boston area, moving into a rundown house in Cambridge, which she renovated. When Joe soon took up with an aide in his office, Beth Kelly, Sheila said nothing; when he married her, Sheila wished the couple well...
...early June, the Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)--the club of the world's wealthy and almost wealthy nations--released a 208-page document perversely titled Pensions at a Glance. Inside is a rundown of how generous OECD members are to their burgeoning ranks of retirees...
...festival winds down, we can see patterns in the films on display. So many, it seems, deal with men as predators and women as their prey, with mean males and women driven to the edges of society, sometimes to madness, by the perfidy of the penis. Here's a rundown of the dark views of humanity we see when we walk out of the sunshine into the movie theaters...
...Liverpool is home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe, and locals said at first that they were unaware of Lin Liang Ren's activities - though some had noticed the blue overalls and weird fishing nets dumped in the garbage outside a rundown house in one inner-city neighborhood. He had allocated new illegals to his various properties, trucking them to the Morecambe mudflats and profiting from their labor while they earned less than a few dollars per day. In the tight-lipped Liverpool Chinese community, such business deals had gone unquestioned...
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