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For a year and a half, Amy had accepted her beau's constant pot smoking. But she remembers that nightmare, which she had about four years ago, as the moment she realized it wasn't a good idea to be with him any longer. "He actually woke me up because I was crying in my sleep, and so I told him about the dream," says Amy, now 30. "And he said, 'That's not how it would be!'" Her response: "No, I'm afraid that's how it is." Amy, a Lower Pacific Heights resident who works part-time for a green realty company while studying to get her master's in business administration, is no gold-digger. The nightmare wasn't about her man's income — it was about his attitude. Her bad dream was a scene straight out of this summer's blockbuster comedy Knocked Up, where a phenomenally attractive correspondent for the E! television channel (played by blonde bombshell Katherine Heigl) and a bong-loving slacker dude (played by Seth Rogen) start a relationship after a drunken one-night stand results in an accidental pregnancy.
The CNN Wire: Thursday, Sep. 27
The reauthorization bill "fails to focus on poor children, and instead creates a new entitlement program for higher-income households," said White House Press Secretary Dana Perino in a written statement. (Posted 10:03 p.m.) St. John's gunman to be arraigned from psychiatric unit NEW YORK (CNN) -- A college student accused of carrying a loaded rifle on St. John University's campus Wednesday, sparking a campus-wide lockdown, will be arraigned from his hospital bed in a psychiatric ward Friday, the Queens County District Attorney said in a written statement Thursday. Omesh Hiraman, a Queens native, is charged with two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and several violations of the New York City Administrative Code, the statement said.
Alvaro Colom sworn in as president of Guatemala, vows to empower ...
Alvaro Colom was to take the oath of office as Guatemala's new president yesterday, promising to crack down on crime and alleviate poverty in one of the poorest and most violent countries in the Americas. Colom, an engineer turned politician who won Guatemala's presidency in November, has also vowed to help empower the country's ethnic Mayan Indians, telling reporters that he plans "to convert Guatemala into a social-democratic country with a Mayan face." A good 43 percent of Guatemala's 13 million residents are indigenous Mayas, and they voted overwhelmingly for Colom -- who is one of just three non-Mayas to be a Maya priest and is known as "Sparrow Hawk." "My government will push equality, cultural diversity and tolerance," Colom, 56, said in an interview on Sunday. "In my Cabinet there will be no racists or male chauvinists.
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WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION, Wyo. (AP) - Leandra Eagle was a timid 19-year-old with low self-esteem and a minimum-wage job when she accepted a position at Wind River Casino two years ago.
Today, she oversees a small staff as the casino's daytime maintenance supervisor, looks her subordinates in the eye when assigning tasks and earns a salary three times what she made before as a fast-food cook.
''I'm getting a lot more bills paid, and things are getting a lot better,'' said Eagle, a Northern Arapaho who plans to buy a home on her salary and take courses at the community college in Riverton.
Two years after Wyoming's Northern Arapaho Tribe began offering Las Vegas-style gaming in an old bingo hall south of Riverton, the impacts of gaming on the people and on nearby communities are beginning to show.
Trying to Raise the Stakes at NYU
But the problem is much deeper. We need a bit of "freedom" and "democracy" for employees, workers, students, the majority. And we don’t have them now. Grover Furr, Associate Professor of English and Comp. Lit. at Montclair State University, at 10:35 am EDT on April 28, 2006 .
Ehrlich realizes we all have a stake in the city's schools
MORE HIGH-FIVES to Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. of Arbutus for his leadership in Baltimore's school crisis. Last week, the governor pledged a $42 million loan to help the school system pay its bills, and this week, with the deficit numbers looking even worse, Ehrlich came closer to advocating a complete state takeover of the system, declaring himself its new guardian with these words: "I have 90,000 children in Baltimore City schools."
Say what you will about Bobby Slots, but he's no deadbeat dad.
Some might find it wholly remarkable that a Republican from the suburbs, who garnered little support in the 2002 gubernatorial election from the city families who will benefit from this intervention, would take the lead here. But, of course, Ehrlich doesn't have much choice.
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