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...slammed by bad weather. Don't look closely at the droppings in the driveway and you might not realize they belong to a nearby ferocious animal. Fail to notice the morning ice along the creek and you won't order your propane or woodsplitter in time before winter. And that slight movement up on the ridge that you catch in peripheral vision? Depending upon the season, it could either be a rock slide or an avalanche...
...Bitterly at odds with Washington, Assad's regime has sometimes allowed militants to get too close to the U.S. embassy. During an anti-American demonstration in 2000, security forces looked the other way as a mob stormed the grounds and ransacked the American mission. Amid last winter's protests over Danish cartoons viewed as mocking the Prophet Mohammed, demonstrators burned the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus...
...fantasies. In The Manchurian Candidate, published in 1959 and filmed three years later, he postulated the assassination of a presidential nominee by a Joe McCarthy type (the right-wingers did it!) who was controlled by an agent for the Soviet Union (no, the Commies did!). And in the 1974 Winter Kills, also filmed a few years after it appeared, Condon portrayed a president very like John F. Kennedy who is assassinated by... his father...
...known more for her experience on the runway than on the running track. The line has seen a 300% jump in sales from its first to second seasons and is now sold in more than 450 stores in 40 countries. This fall McCartney will release her first collection for winter, Wintersports, which features Dri-release, a synthetic fabric that feels as soft as cotton but wicks away moisture and odor to keep the wearer comfortable, and ClimaWarm, an Adidas technology that retains body heat during cold weather...
Rubin, who has served on the Corporation since April 2002, was former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ most adamant supporter on the Harvard board this past winter. That put him at odds with his fellow Corporation members, who—sources say—pushed the president to step down...