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...loved her. I think we fell in together because we had things in common. We both felt fat. We both had bad skin. We both felt like nothing we wore looked right. We were both outsiders, and she was very protective of me in a really nice...
...made his decisive move in the race just as he passed the Axum Obelisk, a towering stela that Mussolini had brought back from Ethiopia as war loot. Four years later in Tokyo, Bikila won gold again, the first man to defend his Olympic marathon title. This time he wore shoes...
...Hong Kong renaissance evaporated about ten years ago, as the People's Republic took control of the colony; Hollywood summoned many of the best Chinese stars, directors and stunt coordinators for occasional work; and, after a decade or so of hyperactivity, the movement wore itself out, allowing American action films to appropriate a little of its supernal energy. That crazy-wonderful movie spirit may be dead now, but in The Dragon Emperor you'll find some limber ghosts from Hong Kong's Golden...
There's still no ready answer to that question. In the days that immediately followed, Brussels wore the dejected and incredulous air of the billionaire rejected by the chorus girl. In public, there was hurt talk of "respect" for the vote. In private, there were twinges of panic. At a summit in Brussels the following week, Europe's leaders agreed to give the Irish four months to find a way forward; the Union will return to the Lisbon treaty in October. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating E.U. presidency, has set a deadline...
...That's the first thing Dick Heller told me as we stood outside the Supreme Court building on the morning of June 26, waiting for the decision in a landmark Second Amendment case. Heller, who wore a Supreme Court tie and a blue baseball cap with a miniature silver pistol on it, looked like just another enthusiast as he handed out newsletters. But as he lectured me and my friends on the history of the case, we responded with rapt attention rather than casual interest. Heller, a security guard from Washington D.C., was the eponymous plaintiff in the case, District...