| Lovestruck teens run off, leave parents heartbroken
The parents of two lovelorn teenagers from the Flint area tried to keep them apart. Instead, it's the parents who are apart from their children after the teens ran away with a family minivan, an Xbox 360 video game system and a dog named Mandy. Five days later, the parents still haven't heard from the youths and they're worried what began as a quaint excursion could end as something different. .
Daniel Rubin: A frostiness replaces hugs
Jennifer Horvay knew something had changed as soon as she arrived for the second shift at the Wawa. No hugs. Usually, she can't take a few steps inside the convenience store at Castor and Solly in Northeast Philadelphia without coworkers throwing their arms around her in the sort of embrace that makes starting her eight-hour turn in the deli a delight. These aren't your fake hugs and air kisses, she says. They're the real, back-patting "Hey, how are you?" hugs, the hearty "glad-to-see-you" squeezes. They've been a tradition among friends who work at this Wawa going on seven years. "Almost all of the employees at this particular store are admitted huggers," Horvay said the other day. But not everyone. Last week, she says, she sensed an unfamiliar cool in the place that considers itself the Cheers of convenience chains.
Archives for: December 2007
Critics argued such a scenario never occurred, since the younger Kennedy was 3 years old when his father died in 1963. This was true, although much the same criticism could be said of Michelangelo's Pieta. The Virgin Mary holding her crucified Son in the tableau was not in her 50s, as she was when Christ died, and was sculpted to look three decades younger, according to Irving Stone's "The Story of Michelangelo's Pieta."Stung by the criticism, the Kennedy family asked Lewis to withdraw the design and work on a revised conception. Lewis agreed and his new design showed JFK alone, walking on a beach in casual attire. The initial location for the statue, Aselton Park overlooking Hyannis Inner Harbor, was also scrapped in favor of placing it in front of the JFK Museum on Main Street in Hyannis.
The ‘War on Terror’ Licenses a New Stupidity in Geopolitics
The latter may have cut a dash in the subsidy swamp of Sarajevo, but in Afghanistan he would have been a boy on a man's errand. Karzai knows well that his fate lies not with the patronising platitudes of western proconsuls but in the hard graft of provincial warlords, drug gangsters and Taliban go-betweens. These go-betweens have had their status massively boosted by the war on terror. Bush's demand in 2001 that Musharraf "join the war" sent Pakistani forces into the border territories, breaking old treaties and driving the Pashtun tribes into the eager arms of Taliban leaders. This undoubtedly saved Osama bin Laden's skin from the fury of the northern Tajiks, committed to avenge his murder of their leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud. Musharraf, at America's bidding and with $10bn of American money, has done what even his craziest predecessors avoided, and recklessly set the Pashtun on the warpath - increasingly in thrall to a revived al-Qaida.
One killed, three injured in collision near Eagle Point, state police ...
A barrel of crude hit $100 today on the New York Mercantile Exchange, before easing back slightly. A year ago, it traded near $50. As usual, prices vary slightly around Oregon, with the cost of a gallon of regular the lowest in Salem -- $3.02 on average -- and the highest in the Medford/Ashland area at $3.15. To check out the AAA's daily price report for Oregon, go here. And to find the cheapest gas in your area, go here. -- Lynne Terry; lynneterry@news.oregonian.com Continue reading "Prices at the pump going up" » .
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