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...lone HUPD officer could only wave his flashlight at them) and stay away from the area behind the DJ booth. But Shields wasn’t the only center of attention. At one point in the evening, eight unself-conscious freshmen squared off in a contest for an iPod touch. The competitor with the most applause was Sam From Grays (otherwise known as Sam O. French ’12), a Londoner who said he was “happy to show these Americans how to dance.” Careful, Sam: Shields said “he should call...
...start with annuities and life insurance. If you have a variable-rate annuity, your money is most likely in mutual-fund-like sub-accounts. You own those sub-accounts, as you would own stocks through a brokerage. Those are your assets - a creditor won't be able to touch them...
...provide solid acting, and in stretches it manages that. Voight, navigating some dreadful dialogue, doesn't make a misstep; Norton executes his usual business of revealing little but threatening plenty; and Ehle, her head shaved as a cancer patient, deftly underplays her function of providing the poignant feminine touch. But by the the movie's climax, which discards the standard sibling shootout for bare-knuckles barroom machismo, and throws in the instant insanity of a secondary character that nearly stokes a race riot, Pride and Glory has waived all rights to a dispassionate verdict. It's glum and goofy enough...
...event’s three-year history to feature two artists—the Wu Tang Clan and Gavin DeGraw. The CEB’s choice of Third Eye Blind the previous year led to a great deal of dissatisfaction among students who thought the act was out of touch with their current musical interests...
...wedding was a candlelight ceremony, by necessity. The church was without power, and parts of it had no water. Somehow, the pastor managed to find a florist, a piano player - and a baker. We were shocked, and so grateful. It was a beautiful ceremony, if a touch bittersweet. Holly's parents, who evacuated Brazoria County ahead of Ike, couldn't get to Houston. She asked my dad to walk her down the aisle. My daughter was thrilled she got to be a flower girl as planned...