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...kids, they're, well, kids. One boy's idea of "provocation" is to ask what kind of fart everyone is. A girl hogs the fake microphone. The founders are happy. "The test is the kids, and they're on fire," says Wink. And then, showing his affinity with little boys everywhere, he adds, "Not literally...
...some of these new faces, the regular season will be a trial by fire, as Zack Pope (125), Walter Peppelman (149), and Sean Murphy (197) will impact the starting lineup immediately. As daunting as the task may seem, Weiss praised his captains for their work as role models and advisors in helping untested grapplers feel at home...
...Yard, like so many nomads on the Silk Road. You can start frantically calling everyone in your phonebook, assuring them that the party is awesome while secretly hoping your FOP buddies stop rehashing your bout with IBS on Mt. Washington. Finally, there is the nuclear option: pulling the fire alarm and destroying all evidence of your social ineptitude...
...Many of East Jerusalem's 250,000 Arabs are entitled to vote, but few did. Most heeded warnings from Palestinian leaders in Ramallah who said that voting in municipal elections is tantamount to recognizing Israel's "illegal" claim on East Jerusalem. Militants tried to set fire to ballot boxes in one neighborhood, and throughout East Jerusalem, only 2% of Arabs, mainly city workers and their families, turned out to vote. "The election boycott was a success," crowed one activist, who supports Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement...
...prohibitive favorite because of his lead in campaign financing - has had a streak of bad luck. Like many Russian oligarchs, he was hit hard by the global economic crisis. His fortune shrank, forcing him to sell off a major Israeli company at a $100 million loss and to fire nearly all of his radio-station staff. Worse still, Gaydamak, supposedly the model for the title role in the movie The Lord of War (starring Nicolas Cage as an arms dealer in Africa), is one of 42 high-profile defendants on trial in France for illegally shipping weapons to Angola...