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There were heroes aplenty on the bloody battlefields of 1952, but their heroism served only to give a sharper sting to the frustration that already lay on the world...
With a grand jury now expected to convene Monday to weigh indictments of two or three of the Duke lacrosse players tied to allegations of raping an exotic dancer, defense lawyers say they fear their clients are being targeted in a setup or sting operation possibly perpetrated by law enforcement. The lawyers have advised the players not to trust or respond to any e-mails sent to each other, one attorney tells Time...
Awkwardness is democratic; it does not discriminate. Whether you’re the captain of the Crew team or the president of the Chemistry Club, waving back to someone who actually wasn’t waving at you is still going to sting. But it is simply our eagerness to over-think our actions and over-diagnose our weaknesses that makes “awkward” the mantra du jour of Harvard students...
Purdy was first arrested in early October of last year after an undercover sting operation by the Cambridge Police Department and Somerville Police Department alleged that he was running a prostitution ring out of his salon and antique store on Arrow Street...
...larger marketplace, the most popular films were the ones that were made for everyone, and that everyone wanted to see once: you, your kids, your mom. That?s the broad, if thin, constituency that made blockbusters out of The Love Bug, Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Godfather, The Sting-and Jaws, by Lucas? contemporary Steven Spielberg. The majority of these pictures made their money slowly, playing first runs, then gradually reaching the smaller towns and theaters; the theatrical life of one of these crowd-pleasers might be a full year. There were genre movies, of course, but not many science...