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...club had been packed, and Antoinette and husband had joined in the erotic ballet on the dance floor, freakin’ it as the top executives in the publishing industry bristled at her rejection. And now this—the story that would be like a rock thrown at a beehive. Antoinette shifted her focus from the world outside to the interior of her spacious office. Lining its walls and adorning the imported furniture were objets d’art interspersed with personal mementos: the souvenir from the honeymoon to Tanzania, a piece of the Titanic, the original copy...
...tragic struggle to fight back against the dead eyes of the Harvard networking machine, I can’t help but think that I may have thrown hundreds of babies out with their bath water. My overzealous self-righteous condemnation of meeting people for the sake of meeting people, has, predictably, caused me to meet no one. But what...
...though it hardly needs to be said, the bid by Boston Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs should be the first one thrown out of consideration. The prospect of Jacobs dooming another great team to permanent mediocrity would be too saddening for any Sox fan to bear...
...Postal Service and General Electric, the National Parks Service and Amazon.com--institutions capable of shelling out about $8,000 apiece for industrial-strength models. And Kamen's dreamworld won't arrive at all unless he and his team can navigate the array of obstacles that are sure to be thrown up by competitors and ever cautious regulators...
...basement under one pock-marked house, five Taliban fighters were trapped alive. Grenades were thrown in the tiny windows and AK-47s fired after them. With Alliance soldiers too afraid to enter the stables, a tank was brought in, crushing bodies under its tracks before firing five rounds into the block. In a ditch on the main parade ground, a young Taliban fighter, lying sprawled on his side, was still breathing. An Alliance soldier dropped a rock on his head. A few yards away lay a bloodied prayer book...