Word: birthdays
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...love with her, promises to marry her on completing his apprenticeship. But to the distress of the fated lovers, the Pirate King (Ilan J. Caplan ’10) informs Frederic that he will be released from his adventures not when he turns 21, but on his 21st birthday...
However, the catch is that since his birthday is on February 29, a leap year, this technicality forces him not only to serve his apprenticeship for another 63 years, but also to help the Pirate King force Mabel into marriage...
...then spread to the mainstream press. Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist who has organized an investigation into the deaths of children whose schools collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been active on Twitter over the past year; he now has 33,000 followers. Recently he began posting birthday memorials for students who died in the quake. In a recent interview with CNN, Ai, who helped design the "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing, predicted that social media would one day overcome China's censorship regime...
...regular paycheck. She earned $95, her highest check yet. She squeals with happiness and hugs her girlfriends. When I ask her how she did it, she says, "I tried my hardest." She adds, "I tried to wear my uniform, because I knew I wanted some money because my birthday is next week." She has saved her past four paychecks for this reason. The money, she says, gives her just enough incentive to hold her tongue...
...heroic warrior, Manas, as he united the Kyrgyz and smote enemy invaders upon the steppe. It's a tale that has been actively propagated within the republic of Kyrgyzstan since its 1991 independence from a crumbling Soviet Union - in 1995, the fledgling state marked Manas' supposed 1,000th birthday with widespread celebrations. (Manas has also lent his name to the air base that Bishkek licensed to the U.S. to serve as a strategic transit hub for military operations in nearby Afghanistan...