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...warrior," I read your story with disgust and sadness. The complete chain of command should be reassigned, with a failure noted in their records. Then, and only then, can the healing begin. Ray Slingerland, Milton...
Anyway, some kind of royalty; it's hers by birth. Swinton was born into a clan of warrior aristocrats whose Scottish home dates back to the ninth century (they supposedly earned the family name by clearing the area of wild boar), and who served prominently in every major British military and political skirmish for a thousand years. One recent ancestor invented the tank; another helped invent television. Over the millennium the Swintons were deeded huge swatches of prime Scottish real estate; Tilda's father, Major-General Sir John Swinton, a.k.a. the Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, lives in the family estate...
...process that is fatiguing at best, and overwhelmingly invasive at worst. But neither Tenenbaum nor his newly retained lawyer had any intention of trying to make the proceedings move quickly. “The judges are the kings, the lawyers are the wizards, and you’re the warrior,” Tenenbaum recalls Nesson saying that morning. “You have an ox that they’re trying to get, and you’re trying to keep them from getting your...
...Unfortunately, my first new car - a 1979 Pontiac Sunbird - was an unfitting $5,300 homage to the old warrior. It was a lemon, a cut-rate and an ill-aimed stab at beating the Japanese competition in the growing market for smaller cars spawned by rising fuel prices. None of the Pontiac heritage had rubbed off on the Sunbird. After the car saw several years of gentle driving, mostly by my wife, an interior door handle popped off. The fan knob went kaput, and the radio played only intermittently. The final indignity was when the hood release broke, making...
...Warrior," I read your story with disgust and sadness. The complete chain of command should be reassigned, with a failure noted in their records. Then, and only then, can the healing begin. Ray Slingerland, MILTON...