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...separated ourselves [from the original]. I've been mocked for that on blogs, but his tresses are an iconic image. So I went the opposite way and made it a bit more modern. Someone told me that they didn't have buzz cuts in those days. And I said, "Well, they didn't have winged horses either. It's a movie...
...formerly undocumented students began a 1,500-mile walk on New Year’s Day. They planned to go from Miami to Washington, D.C. to raise awareness about the DREAM Act and their situation. Their “Trail of Dreams” campaign has attracted supporters as well as opponents, including an encounter with the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia...
...hormonal and high-risk pregnancy bliss, mandated that I be named after her-much-beloved-Aunt-but-not-actually-an-aunt Henrietta, whom I never had the opportunity to meet to verify that claim. My father would have preferred to keep the extant name for simplicity and, well, pragmatic reasons. My parents decided to compromise and use both names, but call me by my middle name. (For the record, “Bratton” is my mom’s last name...
...arrested on piracy charges and are now being held in Kenyan prisons. They are generally illiterate young men who have no say in the operations they join and don't even know how much ransom is paid for the ships they hijack. All of the financial negotiations are conducted well above their pay grade. "These guys, you can call them ragtag people," says Nyawinda, their lawyer. "They don't have a leader as such. When I go visit them in jail, one may know Swahili more than the others. Whoever among them understands more becomes the leader...
Some have incorrectly worried that personally confessing such shortcomings could undermine papal infallibility. But that doctrine refers only to the dogma of divine revelation. Others wonder if Church officials are worried about the effect of such a statement in opening up the Vatican to potential lawsuits. Well, if the lawyers are calling the shots on this, the Pope is in even worse shape than we thought...