Word: wakes
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...terrible to wake up and wonder why this person's head is on the other pillow," confesses a New York City writer who slept with about two dozen women in the first months after his divorce. "It was painful for them and me too." Says a Chicago bar owner: "All the happy-go-lucky singles in my place tell me that they do not want a relationship. Then six months later they are engaged." A businessman in the Boston area, currently in mid-divorce, is swearing off the one-night stand. "I don't want it, don't need...
...tenth - 13% - said the incident wasn't serious enough to report. When they did report the incidents, the response from school staffs was positive about 70% of the time. That's not enough - it should be 100% - but it belies the dire picture painted by gay groups in the wake of King's killing...
...tempest erupted in the wake of police sweeps 12 miles north of Paris in and around Villers-le-Bel, the epicenter of rioting on the evenings of November 25 and 26 after the accidental deaths of two local youths whose motorbike collided with a patrol car. That violence failed to ignite the kind of nationwide unrest that broke out in housing projects across France for nearly three weeks in the autumn of 2005. But police and the government were troubled by the unprecedented degree of organization and communication by riot leaders, who apparently aimed to inflict as much damage...
...always a catch: if you don’t want to sound like the name-dropping tool at a Rhodes Scholar cocktail schmooze, you’ve got to be ready to offer a little something more than a list of proper nouns. And sometimes, in the wake of “God Bless This Mess,” Crow’s erudite message gets a little garbled. It’s not clear, for instance, whether “Gasoline” is advocating a cut-back on emissions or a populist cut in oil prices (which would...
...Even better, no one saw this coming; last year, the Hornets didn't even have a winning record, and for much of the two previous seasons, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they played most of their games in Oklahoma City...