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...spent her first nine years under medical care in "Quintland," a hospital that essentially doubled as a government-run theme park. Born in Ontario to a pair of devout Catholics (who had, and would produce, several additional children), the Dionne quintuplets were an immediate media sensation, a Depression-era precursor to today's Octomoms and Jon and Kates. Two months premature, weighing about 2 lb. each, Cecile, Annette, Yvonne, Marie and Emilie were quickly made wards of the state by authorities, who feared that their father would exploit them for his own financial benefit. Then, in a supreme irony...
...Many staffers said they have not heard news of impending layoffs, and that the possibility seems slim—Holt said he has been told that “nothing precipitous is going to happen with jobs.” But for some, the hiring halt seems a precursor to more drastic cuts. “It’s not possible to say that no one will be laid off,” said Richard E. Kaufman, a librarian in the psychology department. “I think that prospect is real, and that’s something that...
...qualified for the A final in the 200-yard breaststroke, finishing fifth and eighth respectively. “The freshmen were great, as a group. They were very together, they handled the pressure extremely well,” Morawski said. “It’s a great precursor of what’s to come.”Mills and Pickard, Murray and classmate Katy Hinkle took third in the 400-yard freestyle relay, finishing in 3:22.33. Pickard’s 49.89 leg gave her the school record in the 100-yard freestyle. All nine...
...troubled by the fact that the largest proportional increase in suicide bombings is, in fact, in Pakistan now, not in Afghanistan nor in Iraq. And usually that's the precursor of worrisome things." - Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, detailing Pakistan's increasing problems...
...proud, aristocratic and essentially clueless woman (Nicole Kidman) inherits a failing cattle ranch in Australia's outback. She meets a roughneck drover (Hugh Jackman) with whom she falls into that mutual dislike which, in movies like Australia, is always True Love's necessary precursor. They begin sparking on the adventurous cattle drive that is required to save the old homestead from their rich and avaricious neighbors. She also inherits Nullah (Brandon Walters), an adorable child of mixed white and aboriginal blood, who needs her love but also needs the mystical wisdom of his grandfather (David Gulpilil), a sort of shaman...