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Some people get angry. Some stoically accept their fate. Others try to reason with the police officer who has pulled them over for some real or imagined traffic offense. But when law enforcement is represented by a computer-driven camera that has immortalized your violation on film--as is the case at hundreds of intersections in more 60 cities around the U.S.--it's hard to talk your way out of a hefty fine. Yet that is precisely what some 300 motorists in San Diego succeeded in doing last week when a superior court judge ruled that pictures taken...
...delicious. When an 18-year-old writes that her ex-boyfriend has taken up with some "slut," Hax fires back a lesson about name calling: "I'd go to the beach, but I have to answer some slut who wants my advice. Like how that felt? ... Accept that you hurt like hell, that you need time to mend, and resist the urge to do anything that would make your dignity sigh in despair...
...sales of 50,000 units, kwaito records regularly sell more than 100,000. Fassie's 1998 album, Memeza (Shout), was the first South African recording to go platinum on its first day of release. It has sold more than half a million units, spurred by the single Vuli Ndlela (Accept the Situation), which still remains on the South African music charts. Her latest album, Amadlozi (Ancestors), has sold more than 300,000 units...
...Director David S. Rosenthal ’59 said the drive will likely continue through Friday, depending on whether hospitals continue to accept donations. Buses hired by UHS have also been bringing volunteers to Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where the wait to donate blood is still significant...
...There will be a heightened police presence,” she said. “Everyone understands why we need to take those precautions...We are all going to have to accept some changes...