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Spearheading the legislative movement is Carnell Smith, a Georgia engineer who found out shortly after he broke up with his girlfriend that she was pregnant and spent the next 11 years believing he was the girl's father. Then, in 2000, after his visitation time had been cut back around the same time that a court order nearly doubled his monthly child-support payments, he took a test that showed he was not the biological parent. Three years and about $100,000 in child support and legal fees later, Smith, 46, managed to disentangle himself from any responsibilities...
...what I was doing when John F. Kennedy was shot. It's so vivid, it's almost like watching a movie: I was home sick from fifth grade, lying on the couch in the living room. My mother had a talk-radio station playing. Suddenly a newscaster broke in with the news that shots had been fired in Dallas and that the President had been rushed to a hospital. Then a few minutes later came these precise words, spoken in just the tone you would imagine: "Ladies and gentlemen, the President is dead," followed immediately by funereal music. My mother...
...venerable rules prohibit members from talking to initiates while in Cambridge). They drove them to Connecticut...whereupon the crafty members promptly stole the kids’ keys and drove away. Harvard’s newest reality TV star is overwhelmed by the demands of fame—and broke up with his girlfriend. Pandemonium broke out in Hilles when all HUID swipers were mysteriously deactivated last weekend. Quadlings couldn’t get in the building, reading room, up the elevator, or down again without a propped open door. Was “get thee to Allston already?...
...Shavers and Hill were from very different backgrounds: he a native New Orleanian, she a North Carolina transplant who had lived in Nova Scotia. But their murders broke with the depressingly familiar trend of drug-related violence. And both victims were the type of involved, idealistic people that many feel are key to the city's recovery: Hill and Gailiunas, who has indicated that he will return to Canada, were part of the Food Not Bombs collective that provides meals to the poor, and Shavers successfully fought to establish a music program in one of New Orleans' notoriously underfunded public...
...group remains the most active Greek terror organization since authorities broke up the country's most deadly urban guerrilla group, November 17, blamed for dozens of bomb attacks and for the killing of 23 people including American, British and Turkish officials. The leftist group was dismantled in 2002 as Greece cracked down in the run-up to the 2004 Olympics. Its suspected leader and other leading figures have been imprisoned in Greece's maximum security prison since 2003. More recently, however, a string of copycat terror cells have emerged, targeting government buildings and foreign business interests...