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...siblings. Now 18, he learned about Kids Company seven years ago as he rode on a London bus. He was about to snatch a handbag, and his accomplice was already seated next to the target, hemming her in against the window. As Walker moved to grab the bag, a stranger tapped him on the shoulder. "You don't need to do that," he said, and gave him the address of a Kids Company drop-in center. "I fell off that cliff," says Walker, "but someone caught me." Would that all British children could say the same...
...master of triangulation is no stranger to balancing acts. And for most of the weekend, the former President managed to avoid the increasingly contentious battle for delegates between Senators Clinton and Barack Obama. He got a standing ovation when he took the stage before some 700 college students - many, no doubt, Obama supporters - and Clinton was clearly relishing being back in the spotlight...
...This meet really proves that Becky rises to the occasion,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “She put herself in the position to be in the thick of it at the height of the competition.” Of course, Christensen is no stranger to the NCAAs or being an All-American. In last year’s spring outdoor season, the Celina, Texas native finished 10th in the NCAA Championship with a 1.77m jump to notch her first All-American nod. Prior to that she finished fourth in the 2006 outdoor NCAA East...
...Santogold on horseback, flanked by two militant looking women in aviators and boots who perform jerky dance moves between close-ups on Santogold’s hardened features. It seems that this could go on forever, until an explosion of some sort occurs and the video grows ever stranger as the theme turns to violence. My guess would be that Santogold is parodying pervasive violent imagery by using gross fluids and substances to pose as innards, but there is really no way to know as the video is so visually bizarre that it’s difficult to think about...
...others who might strike you as celebrities, but to us they are native sons. Kentuckians by and large try never to get above their raisin' by forgetting where they come from. And they can turn on the charm and charisma at will. We tend to have never met a stranger, and once we're a friend, we're always a friend. Brad Noel, LEXINGTON...