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...there for the taking (and Hong Kong but an hour away by jetfoil), but if gleaming casinos and cigar bars are not your thing try heading out to Coloane Island - the only part of Macau that hasn't been turned into a Chinese facsimile of the Vegas strip. Call well ahead for a balcony table at the tiny Restaurante Espaco Lisboa, tel: (853) 882 226, and enjoy Portuguese home cooking while the sounds of cicadas, and the day's races, ring in your ears...
Until we can build some kind of social network where we can present our true, flawed selves--perhaps some genius can invent something that takes place in a house over dinner with wine--I say we strip down our online communities to just the important parts. With enough venture funding--by which I mean the volunteer services of a dude who knows how to build a website--I hope to launch TrueSocialStatus.com on which users are allowed to submit only their name, their occupation, a photo, the square footage of their home and a list of any celebrities they happen...
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...poverty. Their entire lives are, by and large, extralegal. They do not donate to politicians and they do not vote. Their trade demands that they shed their citizenry, that they give up the privileges and protections of society for them and their families. The law does not demur to strip away their freedom, and they fill up the ranks of inmates in wild overproportion—over 55 percent of the federal prison population is incarcerated for drug offenses...
...game, Fairfield was able to send a through ball up the middle to forward David Piedrahita. Piedrahita found himself on a breakaway with the closest Harvard defender 15 yards behind him. Unfortunately for Piedrahita, that defender was Nyamekye, who was able to run him down and strip the ball away just inside the 18-yard box. “He reads the game very well,” head coach John Kerr said earlier this season. “He comes up with some unbelievable plays, and everyone in the crowd, and me on the bench, and all the coaching...