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...parked along the streets of Hamburg, Germany's freewheeling port city. The woman found herself before a judge named Ronald Barnabas Schill, who promptly sentenced her to two-and-a-half years in prison for her vandalism. Stunned, newspapers branded Schill Judge Merciless, and the sobriquet stuck through a sheaf of draconian sentences. Trading on his law-and-order image, Schill organized his own political party, the Law and Order Offensive, and won a stunning 19.4% of the vote in municipal elections last year. Now he is taking his party to two other states in the hope that...
...like doing a retro-musical today based on the songs and movies of 1978. Shall we have a disco version of "Smokey and the Bandit"?) Kelly, Reynolds, Donald O?Connor and Jean Hagen make for a wonderfully comic quartet. And the unsung star was Roger Edens, who took a sheaf of 20s and 30s songs by Herb Nacio Brown and Arthur Freed (producer of this film and most of Kelly?s other musicals) and soldered them into a perkily coherent score...
...worthless to the hunter-gatherer tribesmen but not to the city slicker who happens to pass by a few days later?he acquires them in exchange for a few trinkets. At this point in the tale, the narrator reaches into a rusty, banged-up box and pulls out a sheaf of the papers, seemingly yellowed by age: Treasury bonds, worth trillions of dollars. Now the narrator makes his dramatic offer: for a small downpayment, a big piece of this windfall can be yours...
While trying to straighten out LuLing's chaotic house, Ruth comes across a sheaf of papers written in her mother's graceful Chinese calligraphy. She recalls that her mother had given her a few such pages earlier, which are stuffed in a desk drawer. Ruth hires a translator and vows to read the whole batch of what her mother remembered to write down before she began to forget...
...Powerful Media, whose ambitious subscription-based website Inside.com set out in May to become the Daily Variety of cyberspace, had been held up at the office, she told her friend, finalizing the debut issue of [Inside], her company's new magazine. That's right, magazine--as in a sheaf of stapled-together pages covered in ink and distributed by snail mail. How ironic. How 20th century. Here she was, a brash entrepreneur in the brave new world of Web-based publishing, stuck with the old-fashioned job of selling ad space and shipping proofread pages to the printer...