Topics: The Graduate; Patty Hearst; embarrassed versus ashamed versus awkward; people versus persons; talk to the hand Words: to give (someone) a ride to seduce to have an affair to set (someone) up with magnate notorious to kidnap urban guerrilla fr

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The notorious cheap skate finally decided to have a party. Explaining to a friend how to find his apartment, he said,

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By Alan Silverman Hollywood 16 April 2006 A new film exposes an icon of 1950's pop culture in the United States: a pin-up model whose provocative photographs, though tame by today's standards, created

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Burma Pledges to Loosen Notorious Censorship Laws Newspapers bearing the once banned image of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi are fairly common nowadays in Rangoon. But the 50-year-old censorship laws, a relic of the socialist era, are still in eff

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Odd Spider Prefers Salad In a study in the journal Current Biology, researchers report the discovery of an unusual spider, Bagheera kiplingi, that eschews meat and chews acacia tips. Karen Hopkin reports Its said that real men dont each quiche. And r

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