On her wedding day, perky Susan Murphy is pacing outside the chapel when, darn the luck, she’s assaulted by a meteor. She stumbles into the ceremony, where she quickly expands to an unsuitable size — 49 ft.
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Has Zimbabwe’s Runaway Inflation Finally Been Tamed?
Seated on a wooden chair inside his dilapidated shack in the Harare township of Mbare, primary school teacher Moses Majuru, 40, is both anxious and excited about the week ahead. Life has become a bit easier recently thanks to the Zimbabwean government’s decision on Jan.
Law-School Grads See Promised Jobs Put On Hold
After serving as a 2008 summer associate at Philadelphia law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Harvard Law School student Juan Valdivieso was offered a position as a full-time associate and was anxiously looking forward to joining the firm later this year.
Turkish PM shows common touch on campaign trail
The yellow bus with a giant photo of the prime minister on its side raced through Elazig, a provincial town in eastern Anatolia, blaring patriotic music. Crowds of cheering locals, some of them women dressed in robes and veils, lined the dusty streets, straining to get a glimpse of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he waved through the windshield. Suddenly, Emine Erdogan, the prime minister’s wife, gasped in shock
Entire English village on sale for $33M
Hidden away in the hills of Hampshire lies the village of Linkenholt. This idyllic community, home to just 50 people comes complete with grand Edwardian manor house, cricket pavilion and grounds, blacksmith’s forge, rectory, shooting grounds, 22 houses and grade 2 listed cottages
An SUV is home for jobless duo
Richard Barboza sits behind the steering wheel, patiently working a crossword puzzle. There’s no rush. Time is one thing Barboza has plenty of.
Young couple moves in with her ex-husband
Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband. (CNN) — Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband
Kids with ADHD May Learn Better by Fidgeting
Like nose-picking and a preoccupation with feculence, the inability to sit still for long periods is a defining characteristic of childhood.
Is ‘West Side Story’ Overrated?
One of the perks of being a theater critic, in those dog days of the season when you find yourself struggling to sit through the latest Chekhov revival or pretentious little comedy about tightly wound New York singles, is the Broadway-musical revival. Yes, you can complain — as I often have — about unimaginative commercial producers who keep recycling surefire classics like Gypsy or Guys and Dolls. But there’s good reason they’re recycled so often: they are surefire — unfailingly entertaining, no matter how uninspired the production, the indomitable high points of a genre that is America’s great contribution to world theater.
Is the Economy Starting to Recover? Or Just Less Bad?
Could it be that things are beginning to get better for the U.S. economy? Nope, no real chance of that