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...Harvard economics professor picked up a memorable birthday gift for himself last Friday: a truckload of stolen manure and an arrest, in a small-town controversy that has made a big stink among locals...
...does this chiefly through character expression. Though the faces are comprised of a few dots and lines, the range of emotion is rather astounding. Most famous are the expressions of distress or surprise whose accompanying exclamations - BAW! WAH! YOW! -- have become as iconic to comix as sweat beads and stink lines. Together, the Stanley/Tripp team formed one of the longest, most productive relationships in comic's history. Kids should not be without at least one volume...
...advance to discuss possible solutions." Other Deloitte partners also had serious concerns. In an audit report dated March 28, 2003, Deloitte's Maltese office questioned a $7 billion intercompany transfer that is now known to have been fictitious. The Deloitte auditor in Brazil, Wanderley Olivetti, raised such a stink to the Milan office about Parmalat's Brazilian accounts that the matter went all the way up to Jim Copeland, then Deloitte's chief executive in New York City. "Sorry to trouble you this morning in a moment while you are clearly busy with other matters," Milan partner Mamoli wrote...
...local police station went horribly wrong. Now, three days later, as rifle-toting soldiers stood watch, the shrouded bodies were first laid out under the hot sun on a field next to the 380-year-old ironwood Wadi al-Hussein mosque. Prayers were said. Then, amid the pervasive stink of decay, the bodies were buried in a deep hole. As he watched the diggers fill in the mass grave, Amdan shook his head. "I just can't believe it," he said. Then he threw...
...Nike phenomenon is challenging Confucian-style deference to elders too. At the Nike shop in a ritzy Shanghai shopping mall, Zhen Zhiye, 22, a dental hygienist in a miniskirt, persuades her elderly aunt, who has worn only cheap sneakers that she says "make my feet stink," to drop $60 on a new pair. Zhen explains the "fragrant possibilities" of higher-quality shoes and chides her aunt for her dowdy ways. Her aunt settles on a cross trainer. For most of China's history, this exchange would have been unthinkable. "In our tradition, elders pass culture to youth," says researcher Zhang...