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...onward they sped, through the wide French doors and into the darkened hallway that was already filling with smoke. Felicity wielded the torch like a broadsword, swung it left and right. Slowly the dark house came alight with fire. She paused at the top of the great staircase. In the gray din below, she thought she saw a thread of golden hair. It disappeared, and then she saw her imbecile of a husband running in the same direction. He must not reach Roxanna! Felicity hurled the burning torch down the stairs at Frederick’s feet. Frederick shrieked...
...Guccione actively disliked each other; while Guccione promoted the rumor that Hef was a "closet queen," the Playboy publisher, noting Guccione's cultivation of a similarly decadent lifestyle, remarked that "If I were he, I'd want to be me, too.") Larry Flynt's Hustler, founded in 1974, swung the pendulum even farther, gleefully relinquishing any claims to good taste...
...recent years, the Philippines has faced an unprecedented exodus. Though millions of men have come and gone to work overseas over the past century, the world's ever-increasing demand for "female labor" like caregiving and domestic service has swung open the exit door for the nation's women. Today, about 8.7 million Filipinos - some 10% of the population - are registered with the government as overseas workers. Thousands of workers leave the country every day, and half of the new hires are women, flying off to earn salaries that are propping up the country. Last year alone, overseas workers sent...
...mayor may have trouble delivering such a secular 'miracle'. Taken together, ultra-orthodox parties will still be the largest block in Jerusalem's city council. In order to win over the large religious Zionist vote, Barkat, a former city councilman, swung from the center to the far right, campaigning on promises to build more Jewish settlements in Arab East Jerusalem. U.S. administrations and the international community have repeatedly said that these settlements are an obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians...
Gaydamak is setting his sights on Jerusalem's secular and less Orthodox Jews. But the Russian faces competition from Nir Barkat, 49, a software multimillionaire and city councilman. They will end up splitting the secular votes, with Barkat scooping up the larger share. Barkat has swung to the right, promising to build more Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem. Gaydamak thinks his only chance is to make inroads among the city's Arab community...