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...textbook case of cockblock-by-a-political-scion when Walter B. Kubisch ’03 had his hopes for getting with righteous babe Virginia C. Macleod ’04 dashed after she confessed to a crush on Al Gore III ’05. Said Kubisch bitterly, “This is worse than the time I was cockblocked by Jeb Bush...
...napping in her mother's home on Napier Rd., the seedy red-light section of Karachi, the country's rough-and-tumble commercial hub. It was a great distance?in every way?from what she had hoped for when she married Bilal Khar, now 36, a former politician and scion of one of Pakistan's best-known families. Five days earlier, after enduring constant physical abuse by her husband during three years of marriage, she had returned home...
...seems, unfortunately for all the big money and expectations clustered around his debut, pretty much beyond the pale of fictional empathy or the sort of reader involvement that has made Harry Potter so beloved. For Artemis is repellent in almost every regard. This mastermind is the know-it-all scion of a criminal and fabulously rich Irish family, lately fallen on hard times after the mysterious disappearance of Artemis' father. So the son and his burly henchman Butler embark on a quest to buff up his inheritance by stealing gold from the fairies, who live beneath the earth, having been...
They could be right. Founded in 1976 by Hasan di Tiro, last scion of the precolonial sultanate, GAM was the target of a protracted military campaign between 1989 and 1998. Jakarta called them "regional military operations," but in Aceh they were marked by assassinations and "disappearances" of the South American sort. Some 6,000-7,000 GAM suspected activists were killed, and the group was severely depleted...
...cyberbubble won kudos for leveraging his essentially worthless assets?DigiScents? Network of the World? A phony Stanford degree??into one, very real telco when he paid $29 billion in stock and cash for Hong Kong Telecom. What nobody realized then was that this khaki-clad scion who embodied all the Web concepts people used to act like they believed in?does anyone remember Metcalf's Law??would become the poster child for the New Economy's crash and burn. At PCCW's first announcement of its consolidated earnings last week, the company revealed that it wrote down $22 billion dollars...