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...superior, Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker) tells him proudly. "Gimme a hug." Ludlow is the star of Wander's Vice unit, which uses all exigent means, like a fist to the face and bullet in the back, to keep the better organized sexual predators in tow. "You are the tip of the spear," Wander says to Tom. "Who else'll keep back the animals...
...their mutual admissions had trapped the Viscount and Viscountess in a sort of agonizing stasis. Under such circumstances, there could be few hours in life more painful than those dedicated to the dark ritual of afternoon tea.They only wanted for something—someone, perhaps—to tip the balance.“What will there be to see on the north side?” Frederick replied. “Just a square of tilled soil in which nothing can grow, in which those shoots that do break through to the open air will soon find that...
...around 5 p.m. on April 2, local police and officers from the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation descended on a four-story warehouse in suburban Manila. They were acting on a tip-off about possible illicit activity. But the agents weren't searching for drugs or knockoff Rolexes. They were looking for rice. The inspection was part of a nationwide effort to nab profiteers who, taking advantage of sky-high prices for Asia's most basic food, are suspected of repackaging government-subsidized rice and reselling it at higher market rates. Officers have had some success, discovering 27,000 bags...
...Tip O'Neill, for whom I worked half a dozen years, would have called Grandpop a "street-corner guy like myself." Tip took greatest joy in the days when he got a fellow Irishman a deserved promotion at a Cambridge bank by threatening to withdraw the church's charity money. The other day I was on the phone with Brady, and he told me about interrupting a phone call from one of the two Democratic presidential candidates to help save a guy's turnpike job. Same deal...
...play interesting, according to Hirschberg. However, she also believes this play is of special interest to the Harvard community.It’s a great Harvard play because it’s such a nerdy play. Oh my god, it discusses chaos theory and that is just the tip of the iceberg. Every now and then there are poetry quotations from characters like Lord Byron. Also, there’s a character of an academic that you’d actually want to be like so you figure, it’s worthwhile to stay at Widener late. It?...