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...course, many grandparents do more than just spoil the cubs occasionally. Lynne and Terry Swain, of Queensland's Sunshine Coast, have had custody of two granddaughters since 1999 as a result of the girls' parents' drug use. Lynne had to stop working to look after Kacie, now nine, and Amaya, eight, and the couple have eroded their savings defending custody in court. "I've got other grandchildren and it's hard on them because I haven't got the time to spend with them," says Lynne, 55. "I'm doing school canteen again, swimming carnivals . . . the children love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stepping Into The Breach | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard scored six straight points out of the break to take a 39-26 lead, but the Bears’ star guard quickly hit his offensive stride. On a remarkable coast-to-coast drive from Forte with 15:59 remaining, Brown cut the lead to 41-39, threatening to spoil the good feeling of the evening...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Tops Brown, Sweeps Weekend | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard scored six straight points out of the break to take a 39-26 lead, but the Bears’ star guard quickly hit his offensive stride. Brown cut the lead to 41-39 on a remarkable coast-to-coast drive from Forte with 15:59 remaining, threatening to spoil the good feeling of the evening...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Gets Weekend Sweep With Win Over Brown | 2/25/2005 | See Source »

...picture reaches its end, it appears that the filmmakers have to explain who is actually behind all of those terrible deaths. I won’t spoil the inevitable “twist ending” that has been used to sell the movie, but let’s just say that causal relationships go out the window, where they will certainly find the company of reason and Dakota Fanning’s dignity. Ultimately, “THE PART OF THE MOVIE THAT COMES AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE” proves to be just as vacuous and phony...

Author: By Tony A. Onah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hide and Seek Review | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...next time I visited that gallery, I realized that maybe Kline hadn’t really spoiled Pollock for me, and that to think so was merely the symptom of overly dogmatic thinking on my part. After all, Kline could only really spoil Pollock if they existed as two competing entities on the same spectrum of a single quality (in this case, base materiality). But of course the relationship between two works of art, let alone the works themselves, are never actually that simple. And indeed, on my next visit the Pollock no longer looked boring compared to the Kline...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Paintings | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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