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...years ago he was something pretty close to it: driving his own cars, answering his own phone, cooking his famous chili for friends and still paying off his student loans. By contrast, Hillary Clinton has been in Washington for more than a decade and John McCain, who has also thrown a few elitist jabs Obama's way, has been there more than two decades...
...move all the way back to India, abandoning the struggle that my parents and their friends had embarked upon,” Hema says of her schoolgirl crush, Kaushik. Hema and Kaushik’s story speaks to the mutability of possible futures and the tenuousness of forged connections. Thrown together briefly during the period of Kaushik’s childhood spent in Cambridge, when the two fortuitously meet in the middle of their lives in Rome among “an international crowd of journalists and photographers and academics, always three or four languages spoken at the table...
...Show me a hero," F. Scott Fitzgerald dared us, "and I will write you a tragedy." For Navy seal Michael Monsoor, heroism and tragedy arrived together, when the grenade thrown onto the Ramadi rooftop he patrolled bounced off his chest; he could escape--and let it kill his two comrades--or throw himself on top of it and trade his life for theirs...
...sound of squealing tires, at the beginning of TLC's Date My House. On the new show, anxious sellers stage overnight "dates," in which potential buyers spend the night at the house, the better to "seduce" them into making a "long-term commitment." (The sellers themselves are not thrown in as part of the date package. But let the market drop another 10%, and we'll talk.) "It's time to stop thinking of home sales as being on the real estate market," Guiney says, "and start thinking of them as being on the dating market...
Kramer, who had an excellent game behind the plate with two runners thrown out stealing and two tagged out in close plays at home, did not initiate contact with Franczek after the play...