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...Arroyo's woes may stem in part from the typical sound and fury of Filipino politics - a blood sport traditionally contested among entrenched dynasties. Yet the accretion of scandal also appears to be eroding support for the President among some in the business community, one of her power bases. "We're really distressed about the way she lurches from one fiasco to another," says Alberto Lim, director of the Makati Business Club, an influential lobbying group that has previously called for Arroyo's resignation...
...work. 6. Snape had a huge porn collection. That’s the real reason why the potions storeroom was always locked. 7. Butterbeer is 150 proof alcohol... No wonder it’s so popular. 8. Harry, Ron, and Hermione used Party Funds to corrupt Hogwarts first-years! Sound familiar? 9. Fleur Delacour is bulimic. No one can put away bouillabaise like that. 10. Hermione has a unibrow, but her “magic” skills (read: tweezers and makeup!) fixed that. 11. Ginny can be sweet and nasty... 12. Ron has a soft spot for bad cheese...
...daring, unfettered by social niceties.9. FM: Writing a pop science book is very different from writing a scientific article. Do you feel that you have to simplify your theories to make them bestsellers? Or conversely, for articles do you jargonize the intuitive parts of your theories to make them sound more scientific? SP: No, I think I don’t. I try as hard as I can not to simplify the ideas. I try to do two things: not use jargon so as not to exclude people just because they’re not members of the club...
...It’s like the loudest thing I’ve ever heard going into the stadium,” Hatch said. “If there’s a big play on the ground you can feel the sound. Before the games there’s like 120,000 people on campus going nuts just getting ready for the game. It’s the best environment of any college football team...
...serious moment, though, that Leach, who served 15 consecutive terms in the House of Representatives, said that elected office “should not be considered a career.”Indeed Leach, who left behind a record as a moderate Republican from Iowa, does not sound much like a congressman. Asked whether he, like Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, would invite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Harvard, Leach responded by criticizing Bollinger—not for the invitation, but for his remarks, in which Bollinger called Ahmadinejad a “petty and cruel dictator...