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...been an oh-so-Louisiana run for Edwards, whom nobody but the feds ever wanted to kick around. They got him for extorting money from businessmen seeking Louisiana casino licenses, including star witness Edward J. DeBartolo Jr., the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, who got a reduced sentence for testifying about his own $400,000 bribe to Edwards. He was a bad boy, but the voters never cared; Edwards liked to joke that he'd never have to leave office unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." Edwards was a charmer...
...great lengths to get the job done. After one type of Australian spider lays her eggs, she lives barely long enough to see her young mature. Then she positions herself among them and slowly liquefies, transforming herself into an edible goo that gives her babies a nutritional kick start in life. The very idea of mammalian metabolism is a subtler case of maternal self-sacrifice. An organism taking in precious calories and then giving them away in the form of milk directly defies the me-first rule of all animal survival, yet mammal mothers do it willingly...
...worst thing that happened were the few times I had to teach classes with my son in my arms," Franklin says. "Students get a kick out of it--the first time...
...Magnum, it was time to move up to something more powerful and deadly. As we looked through the huge selection of guns available, we saw the sleek, fully automatic MP5 with a silencer. The gun, preferred by both the CIA and Secret Service, has very little kick and can shoot in one, three and automatic shot bursts. Minutes later, I was rattling off bursts of metal with occasional pinpoint accuracy and ended my day by sending a stream of bullets through my target...
This Saturday, Pforzheimer House will kick off the spring formal season at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. That same evening, the Bow & Arrow Pub will be serving one-dollar Molson’s and, more importantly, broadcasting post-season hockey. As a Pfohoser, it’s a tough call—life’s decisions shouldn’t be this difficult...