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Well, here was one significant counterclaim lying on the stretcher today. Nick's shortened, turned-in leg announced the problem even before I saw his x-ray. His new old hip was dislocated...
Nick was about as nice as an old man with a dislocated hip can be. Despite what is typically an extremely painful problem, he was pleasant, talkative and charming. His interests lay in the history of his native Sparta and in the making, extolling and drinking of large amounts of the well-known (and in my limited experience, best-avoided) pine-resin-laced traditional Greek wine retsina. Trained by decades of exposure to the resinous brew, Nick's brain and liver now presented us with an unusual difficulty: they had become so good at detoxifying his system that...
...have no problem with Fernández being here, because this is a guy who, to my knowledge, has a pretty clean record in human rights and corruption,” Levitsky said...
...conviction of religious leader Warren Jeffs - self-proclaimed Prophet to the largest polygamist group in North America - was a victory for a new tactic being used by prosecutors in western states. The problem: polygamist churches that were marrying off young girls to older men, some brides as young as 14 and often closely related to their husbands. The proposed solution: go after the church leaders as accessories to rape...
...hitch in parliament was that the Hizballah-led opposition - which controls over a third of the chamber's deputies - boycotted the proceedings, preventing the country's majority from having the two-thirds quorum necessary to move to a vote. But the larger problem is that the country's factions are locked in a struggle that has become part of the regional struggle for Middle East supremacy, with Syria and Iran on one side and American and Israel on the other...