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...friendships were in the toilet between the three of us even though our success was looking up,” Corrigan said. “There was just no amount of money or press or people telling us we should stick it out that was enough for us to be happy...
...pattern. these people left town without paying there account is the sign that greets those entering the Menzies roadhouse. Even its ebullient owners, Robert and Christine Earnshaw, didn't mean to stick around for quite so long. He was an upholsterer from Perth whose first wife came to work at the service station; 18 years his junior, Yorkshire-born Christine, 45, stopped in Menzies while touring Australia. But after 12 years together at the roadhouse, they're ready to sell up. "It's an experience I wouldn't have missed, living here," says Earnshaw, who also runs the town...
...secret location farther north. Having fled her family, she is unlikely ever to return home. "We hope to get a written guarantee from her parents that she will not be killed," says Zemnakow Aziz, a Workers' Communist Party official. "Even then we cannot be sure they will stick to it." Ultimately, Aziz says, he will try to find an Iraqi family abroad to take...
LINDEN ST. ART STUDIOS—Few things are more intimidating than sketching a naked female stranger posing five feet away. To be precise, I can think of two things more intimidating: first, doing so without knowing how to draw so much as a stick figure; second, discovering that the model in question likes to examine the finished products for “different perspectives” on her body...
Though most jurors thought there had been abusive incidents, many were reluctant to dismiss their doubts. But each was a tough, rational New Yorker through and through, determined to stick it out until we reached the right verdict. After a while we cajoled the bailiffs into getting us coffee and cookies, and at some point that afternoon, we agreed that there had been a robbery, but that we didn’t have enough evidence to convict on the two weapons charges (though some of us grumbled at that). Four counts down...