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...residents of Charlesview, the prospect of Harvard taking their homes is actually exciting. Such a deal would spell the end to the flooded hallways and renovation-driven rent increases of this unsightly concrete building that is literally sinking into the ground...
...even know if I know how to spell my name anymore." George Harrison, Beatles guitarist, on his deathbed, according to a $10 million lawsuit filed by his estate alleging that Harrison's doctor coerced the cancer-stricken rock star into signing autographs for the doctor's children. The doctor denies the accusations...
...illiterates. Universally, if unfairly, identified with cheap, rounded bottles of Mateus Ros? (apparently a favorite tipple of Saddam Hussein), it's now making a comeback in slick, new guises as winemakers attempt to second-guess a fickle market. Pinot Noir is no longer trendy, Riesling had a short-lived spell of cachet?ros? could be the new flavor of the month. Numbers from the C?tes du Provence region in France, one of the world's main ros?-producing areas, show that exports are on a steady annual increase...
...compensated. He seized effective control of both the media and the ballot box. Putin's party swept the December elections, leading some observers to cry foul at the margin of victory. His regime also arrested a tycoon who just happens to fund Putin's political rivals. How does one spell "undemocratic" in Russian...
...Their approach delivered search results that creamed the competition's, and it served them up in a simple, quick-loading, no-frills format. It was a stone-cold category killer. Brin and Page called their search engine Google. "It was fun, it was short, it was reasonably easy to spell," Page remembers. "We like doing big things, and googol [the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeros] is a huge number...