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...book?s intended victim was a wealthy tycoon, but the confluence of zany coincidences and logic lapses is the same. ?There?s a ?why? in this too big to go down on any report,? the book?s detective says. ?It seems to slip away each time you think you?ve got it pinned down.? In the baronial study, the girl, her lover (John Lund), the cop (William Demarest) and a few businessmen all wait for the witching hour. Then [SPOILER] a mysterious figure moves the minute hand on the grandfather clock ahead, and when that clock chimes 11 the girl...
Monday night, it was more of the same for the Crimson, which watched a two-point lead with just 13 seconds remaining slip away as the game went into overtime...
...groups most directly responsible for student safety allowed news of SafetyWalk’s dissolution to slip through the cracks and promulgated a farcical safety provision: the College continued advertising SafetyWalk to students on blue light security phones, fire doors and in the Guide for the Class of 2007, and HUPD listed SafetyWalk’s phone number in its Guide for Keeping Safe at Harvard. Much of the information listed was not only outdated and inaccurate, but inconsistent as well. The SafetyWalk telephone number listed on some fire door stickers, for instance, directed students to the office...
...energy-gobbling pumps. One of the attractions of fuel cells is that they can be big enough to run a factory or small enough to fit under the hood of a car. Medis' innovation is a type of micro--fuel cell, a power source that's small enough to slip into your pocket. The Medis Power Pack--a portable, wire-free mobile-phone recharger slated to be in shops by the end of next year--will allow users to boot up their handsets whenever and wherever the need arises...
We’ve lost more than three million private jobs under President Bush, and middle class families are one pink slip or one medical emergency away from bankruptcy. This president does nothing about it. Year after year, he cuts taxes on the unearned income of the wealthy and heaps more of the burden on people who work. Under George W. Bush, a multimillionaire sitting by the pool pays less in taxes than his secretary working overtime. The president’s agenda has enriched the insiders who funded his campaign, yet underfunded education and health care...