"Machismo got a bad name starting with the feminist movement, where it was used to label male behavior that women found offensive," the novelist Robert B. Parker once told Amanda Smith in a Publisher'...
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A Long Island couple videotaped and photographed sexual encounters they had with people they met over the Internet, then forced them to pay hush money, police said Wednesday.A preliminary investiga...
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Rome (dpa) - The Mafia represents Italy's biggest business
enterprise with an annual turnover of 90 billion euro (128 billion
dollars) a year, according to Italy's leading r...
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Men who have nothing to hide don't talk in code. They don't urge jail visitors to conceal their mouths, for fear of surveillance cameras and lip readers. And they don't pay $240,000 in hush money t...
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The Marine Corps agreed Thursday to revamp its recruiting practices in Northern California and pay $200,000 to two young women who claimed they were raped during a slumber party at a Ukiah recruiti...
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Kentucky's race for governor between Democrat Steve Beshear and Gov. Ernie Fletcher looked like it would focus on the ethics of the Republican incumbent, who spent much of his first term battling a...
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Coram Boy, the play with music that comes to us via acclaim at London’s National Theatre, is a wonderful, near-mad folly on Broadway.
Let me say at the outset that, unlike many of my miserabl...
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If the dozens of Web postings and emails I've read are any indication, public opinion seems to be running 99:1 against the family that got kicked off a plane because their 3-year-old child was havi...
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Jakarta (dpa) - It did not take long following the disappearance
of an Indonesian commercial jetliner on New Year's Day for the
country's "crisis management" to kick into hi...
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BEIJING, Nov 12 (Reuters) - China's muzzled press and
burgeoning Internet have given citizen reporters an audience
and an opportunity -- however fleeting -- to spread news
quicker than government ...
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(Corrects spelling of blogger's name in third paragraph to
Shuguang) BEIJING, Nov 12 (Reuters) - China's muzzled press and
burgeoning Internet have given citizen reporters an audience
and an oppor...
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Robert B. Parker
2 charged with sex extortion in N.Y.
