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...long as I’ve been alive, he tried to fix my grandmother. Wihyun Yi: a name best sighed—and a woman who did just that for the 20 years I knew her. She died this past April, and it was the first time I saw brokenness in my carpenter grandfather. The morning before the day she was due to pass, I awoke to the sound of grief: the slow shuffling of feet across the splotched carpet of a home for two, the heaving of cushions as a body sinks into them, and the breaking of noise...
...considered myself old enough to choose to do things. I saw that it was my decision, and mine only,” she said, when I asked her whether or not she retrospectively resented the fact that she was able to easily enter the sex trade as a minor...
...July 5, 8,750 of them received word that they had defied the odds and won two tickets. No tickets went on sale for the event. Ticket holders began arriving at Dodger Stadium at 6 a.m. on July 6 to pick up their tickets in a daylong procedure that saw more than 600 cars arrive each hour for credentials. To ensure that only the winners would attend the show, concert officials placed a wristband on the arm of each ticket holder as they arrived. "It's a deterrent against scalping," said an official...
...prices, both the U.S. Congress and the Obama Administration are considering clamping down on speculation in energy futures, said Gary Gensler, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, on Tuesday. Speculation is one factor believed by economists to have contributed to the turmoil in oil prices that saw them hit a high of $147 a bbl. last July and then drop to $33 just six months later. It traded on Tuesday at about...
...going to be fun and that she'd face a lot of criticism. Her response has been to withdraw. Excluding the budget and appropriations bills, which are mandatory, she has introduced next to very little legislation. In his third legislative session in office, Murkowski introduced 32 bills and saw 19 made into law. In her third session, Palin has introduced 12 bills - none that could be considered sweeping measures - and only one has made it into...