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...Francisco, practicing law, he took sum of his assets: a background in communications and language; solid perception that a stuffed-shirt world could stand to lighten up; natural wit; a smile that could sell used snuff. Then he took to the streets...
Melendez's report also tried to draw a line between what constitutes free expression of dissent at public events and what is an "attempt to snuff out the right of the speaker to speak and the right of the audience to be in he said...
...cannot help but be excited by a man who challenged the seemingly unstoppable bureaucratic machine that was the Mondale candidacy and won. The party fashioned a delegate selection process that was supposed to snuff out underdogs like Hart. But the men in the back rooms made one mistake; the picked a man whom no one wanted, a man who called for a return normalcy when the American electorate had elected Ronald Reagan precisely to get away from that normalcy...
...wall of a Security Express compound in East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from the wall Rembrandt's painting of Jacob de Gheyn III, worth $5 million. Police...
...Erroll's first wife, Lady Idina, Countess of Erroll, was less selective. Her bed was known as "the battleground." Recalled one of her many house guests: "We all used to end up in it at various times of the day and night." Cocaine in Kenya was sniffed like snuff; champagne was the water of life...