Feb 15, 2008 -
Let's be honest: Being a grownup sort of sucks. Yeah, you get to live on your own, but you have to clean your place and pay the rent yourself. I do like being able to buy my own booze and vote, but aside from those things, I yearn to be little again.
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Oct 01, 2009 -
Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Thursday 1 October 2009 19.01 BST larger | smaller Article historyThe scene in Corsicana, Texas, on the morning of 23 December 1991, was one of pure horror. According to eyewitnesses, Cameron Willingham stood in front of his wood-framed home as it was engulfed in flames pleading for someone to call 911 and screaming: "My babies are burning up!"
When fire fighters arrived, they found him dressed only in trousers and with hair on his chest, eyelids and head singed.
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Jul 20, 2009 -
This contains big time spoilers. If you haven’t watched the episode, I am advising you turn back now. Save yourself.**
So, she’s a shapeshifter.
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Jun 22, 2009 -
by Andy Martin
Executive Editor
ContrarianCommentary.com
"Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct"
Andy Martin breaches a taboo by becoming the first analyst to call the conflict in Iran a "civil war"`
America's most experienced independent foreign policy and intelligence analyst predicts the destabilization of the entire region. Martin says President Obama is helpless to act.
(PALM BEACH)(June 21, 2009) As I wrote on June 15th, the most terrifying night of my life was spent in the middle of a riot in Iran thirty years ago.
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Apr 21, 2009 -
Reuters
By Tim Gaynor
TUCSON, Ariz (Reuters) – When the heavy battering started to buckle the front door of her new home in Tucson, Maria remained frozen to the spot with fear.
As her family scattered to hide in the bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen, masked men toting guns and dressed in flack jackets stormed into the living room shouting "Police! Everyone on the floor!"
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Apr 10, 2009 -
by Kate Michelman
The Nation
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Kate Michelman was president of NARAL Pro-Choice America from 1985 to 2004. She is the author of With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose (Penguin/Hudson Street Press, 2005)
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It was a crisp and brilliant autumn day last October when the medical and financial crises with which my family had successfully, if barely, coped for seven years became a catastrophe.
My husband had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2002, a year after our daughter was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident.
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Mar 30, 2009 -
My boyfriend (of a year) and I have a great relationship most of the time. We agree on virtually everything... except Public Displays of Affection.
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Jan 17, 2009 -
“Ring Ring”…”Hello,” Nyssa groggily answered the phone in a sleepy stupor. It was 2PM, but Nyssa hadn’t gotten to bed until the wee hours of the morning due to a hectic photo shoot the night before that lasted some eight hours. “Yup, those are the latest photos on my website.
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Oct 20, 2008 -
CHILDHOOD
"We didn’t have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone’s chips!"
"Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as ‘Claudia’!
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Nov 17, 2008 -
Twilight star takes a bite out of fame
'Bizarre' is one word Robert Pattinson uses to describe the frenzy around Twilight and his rise to fame as a pretty-boy vampire
Nov 16, 2008 04:30 AM
John Hiscock
SPECIAL TO THE STAR
For someone at the centre of an ever-escalating fan frenzy that is now bordering on the hysterical, Twilight star Robert Pattinson seems very much at ease.
The British actor's self-deprecating sense of humour and refusal to take the phenomenon seriously is helping him deal with the besotted adoration of millions of teenage girls around the world who are enraptured by the tortured romance between a brooding, beautiful vampire and a mortal schoolgirl.
"It's absolutely nuts," he says, shaking his head in bemusement and laughing.
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