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...with him through dumb luck. A bomb that didn't explode on March 11 was connected to a cell phone whose SIM card was tracked back to Zougam's shop. Spanish press reports say he purchased a whole box of them recently, along with 14 cell phones. In a thorough search of his shop, police reportedly found a piece of plastic broken from the casing of the cell phone found with the unexploded bomb...
...bosses took such concerns seriously. A preliminary probe this winter elicited only more deception from Kelley, who, it emerged, had asked acquaintances to pose as sources to corroborate his fictions. Kelley quit after that came to light, saying he was being persecuted. The newspaper then began a more thorough investigation. A panel that included outside editors such as John Seigenthaler told staff gathered in the First Amendment dining room at USA Today headquarters near Washington last week that it had found evidence of fabrication in at least eight of Kelley's best-known stories and nearly two dozen instances...
...decided that my sense of self-worth had taken a thorough trouncing, so I got up to leave. As I headed toward the elevator I saw an Adonis in jeans, his rippling muscles bursting through his t-shirt. Ok, that’s an overstatement, but he was male. And he was at speed dating also, which has to be a comment on his attainability—the number one trait I look for in a man. He said he had some friends who were waiting downstairs, too timid to enter the competitive speed dating scene first...
...Yeatsian scholarship that continues to this day. “A lot of the work that had been done at the time on Yeats was biographical and historical, and not enough attention had been paid to the poems,” Vendler recalls. Nowhere in many of the most thorough studies of Yeats’ career, Vendler laments, does it mention the poetic structure of his work. “The poets take a lot of pain in not writing prose, so if you ignore the pains they have taken in not writing prose, it seems to be you?...
Last night’s selection was hand-picked by HUDS Executive Chef Martin Breslin after a thorough nutritive analysis of existing menu options, but as Adam J. Scheuer ’06 surveyed his dinner options in Winthrop House, he immediately opted for the grille...