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...This tiny, troll-like creature likes to be called Geremia Heart-of-Gold, and he certainly has a florid line of patter for the desperate townspeople of Agro Pontino who come to borrow money at 100% interest, telling each woman, "My last thought in life will be of you." (He's proud of his old-school manners, telling the matchmaker, "My tool of seduction is my charming mode of speech." She corrects him: "Your only tool of seduction is hope.") But when repayment is overdue, Geremia has no heart at all. He strips one young couple of every piece...
...this special supplement to TIME, we take an in-depth look at 21st century consumers around the world and their incredibly diverse shopping habits?from veiled fashionistas in the mega-malls of Dubai to eBay addicts who troll for Jimmy Choos. We also conducted an exclusive poll of American men and women about their shopping preferences. The most surprising statistic is not who most likes to shop but who will spend the most on a specific item...
...time in September 2004. Since then they have been assigned to serve more than 300 summonses and body attachments (special incarceration warrants for witnesses who don't want to be found). It can be a maddening chase at times. Wearing baggy street clothes with Kevlar vests underneath, the two troll the city's grim row houses looking for witnesses who are, as often as not, "in the game" themselves, part of the same shadowy and dangerous criminal class as the defendants. Even thugs are often afraid of what will happen if they are forced to testify, so Bowden and Conaway...
...admirers are truly remarkable practitioners of the art of self-promotion.Wikipedia is by no means the only example. For years, a college admissions bulletin board called Autoadmit.com, which unofficially spun off from the Princeton Review website, has been plagued with a collection of colorful characters. Each seems present only to troll for a particular academic institution. The ringleader of the bunch, and the only one to have been around consistently since the beginning, goes under the handle NYCFan and has posted literally thousands of messages disparaging Yale and Princeton and defending Harvard’s excellence.Who are these people? It turns...
...December to Dismember. Headlined by New England heavy metal band Hexerei, this concert provides the band with the opportunity to showcase new material slated to be released in 2006 as part of their album “27.” Break the Dark, Death By Fame, and Troll will also be playing. The Middle East. 8 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $12. (IJB)RAQ. A rising alternative rock quartet out of Burlington, Vt. that is often compared to Phish, RAQ will play their self described “high performance rock and roll.” Paradise Rock Club...