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...picture is worth a thousand words—and a few thousand worthless ones. An article in The New York Times titled “A Desolate Princess of the Bronx? Not Then, Not Now” provides evidence of how easy it is to misinterpret an image. The iconic picture published on Halloween 1991 that showed then-six-year-old Guissette Muniz standing alone amidst a scene of urban poverty provoked readers of the newspaper to contact the family offering gifts or expenses-paid travel opportunities—yet Muniz herself never felt impoverished. With two employed parents...
...mailing the PBHA list to find an alternative exit to the law school library because you were trapped there. It instantaneously cancelled out the annoyance of having loads of PBHA e-mails come in every day, and made being on that list worth it,” read the entry...
...great rider." In the case of the arrest that Segui made, even getting thrown in jail didn't seem to matter to the 19-year-old rider, who did not have a driver's license, let alone a motorcycle license. "He said, 'The risk, it's worth it,' " Segui recalls. "He said that out of 30 times, if he gets caught once, that's not bad odds...
...confesses to hitting speeds of 130 m.p.h. on empty, straight roads. He no longer does it, he says, because he has a family. "I know how I am - I have to go fast, you know, and pop wheelies," he says. "I have family and kids. It's not worth...
...That goes for military deals. On Monday, Sarkozy confirmed that France was negotiating with Russia over the sale of four Mistral-class assault ships worth a total of about $2 billion - the first deal of its kind between a NATO member and Moscow. It's turning heads for other reasons too. A Russian admiral recently said the amphibious vessels - which can carry 15 helicopters or 70 armored vehicles - would have allowed Russia to complete its August 2008 invasion of Georgia in a matter of hours. Little wonder, then, that the deal has prompted deep concern among American defense officials...