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...their efforts have produced, among other things, a massive zoo, five police stations and three golf courses. (Burma's generals are notoriously fond of the sport.) Government housing is provided in bright-hued blocks reminiscent of a down-market Florida retirement community, color-coded by residents' occupation: blue buildings are for the Ministry of Health, green for the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation...
...oddball cast of humans supporting Big Brown makes the horse's rise more Guys and Dolls than Kentucky blue blood. They're fast-talking New Yorkers. Besides Dutrow, an ex-addict who was once so down and out that he lived in a racetrack barn, take Michael Iavarone, 37, Big Brown's majority owner. An ex--Wall Street banker and Long Island native who left the rat race for horse-racing, Iavarone and his partners arranged to buy control of Big Brown for $2.5 million in September, after watching him race once--once--on TV. "We put our balls...
...patient named Harvey. Harvey is obsessed with meteorology: he believes that he is part of a secret interdimensional war between rival groups who can control the weather. ("I handle mostly mesoscale events," Harvey says modestly. "I specialize mostly in local wind patterns.") One day, out of the blue, Leo realizes that his beautiful, much younger wife Rema has been replaced by a simulacrum, a stranger who looks almost exactly like her. Who could have switched them? And why? Then Leo starts getting interested in meteorology...
...grounds that they would be used to support the Mexican-American War, he spent a night in jail. Harvard’s current conscientious objectors are treated a little differently. The Harvard Right to Life (HRL) campaign to encourage students to opt-out of the portion of their Blue Cross/Blue Shield (BCBS) insurance fees that fund elective abortions has ruffled more than a few feathers on campus. Some have argued the campaign—in the form of mass e-mails and opt-out cards delivered to student mailboxes—is misguided altogether, while others have defended HRL?...
...neither of them would give Obama an automatic entrée to crucial voter groups that Clinton won - women, Latinos, older voters, blue-collar whites - and that in many key states have appeared to be beyond his reach. "There is still a lot of enthusiasm and support out there for her," says a leader of a women's activist organization. "It is a valid question where that goes after June 3" - the date of the last Democratic primaries. In that regard, exit polls from her lopsided win over Obama in Kentucky pointed in an ominous direction: only a third...