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...sold more than a billion books - so I could buy four and disappear for the weekend (homework was minimal back in the Dark Ages) and never run out. They were all essentially the same. Dark, mysterious, wealthy hero is too damaged to love deeply. Smart, passionate, innocent heroine finds herself in harm's way. Hero rescues; villains are vanquished; vows are exchanged. And a chaste kiss at the happily ever after. Repeat...
...smart man. He didn't become a billionaire by accident." - Mavericks forward Jerry Stackhouse, on Cuban's success in bringing the team to the NBA Finals for the first time in the franchise's 26-year history (Washington Post, June...
...That lingering resentment should help guarantee Lieberman's cooperation. "It is the iron law of reciprocity. He will remember and help those who helped him at a critical time in the future," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. "It is politically smart. The President and the Democrats will need him in the future. It is part of building bipartisanship and political capital...
...acov was one of 11 brothers, the son of a milkman who fled Egypt. A second wave of gangsters appeared in the 1990s: Russian Jewish criminals who control the prostitution rackets, often smuggling Eastern European women into Israel across the Sinai desert, using Bedouin guides. "The Russians are smart - and very violent," says Amir. In a model of entrepreneurial cooperation, some Jewish and Arab gangs hook up to smuggle drugs, stolen cars and arms between the Palestinian territories and Israel...
...schools. “We’ve worked hard with the REP program to promote social marketing and peer-to peer marketing,” Gogan said. “We’re trying to raise the recycling flag where we can and promote waste reduction and smart procurement.” REPs will also be volunteering at the Harvard Yale game. Six 30-yard dumpsters of trash were generated at the 2006 game and Gogan said he hopes to reduce that number this year by making recycling easier and more visible. “When you have...