Posts Tagged ‘split’

‘Bachelor’ Host Gets Divorced

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Chris Harrison and wife of 18 years split.

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Moore Drops Kutcher Twitter Handle

Friday, May 4th, 2012

Demi and Ashton split last year.

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The spaghetti incident: when office lunches go AWOL

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

It was an accident, the kind of split-second disaster played out in corporate lunch rooms around noon every day. I reached into the fridge to grab my cubby of leftovers from amongst the other tubs and containers, and out fell somebody else’s. The yellow Tupperware tumbled off its perch, conked into a shelf and flipped to land on the floor – face down, lid off, pasta strewn. Lunch? Served. Even if you subscribe to the 5-second rule , it surely does not apply to linguine and seasoned chicken chunks. Mop-sop-scoop? Wait – with hands? Ick. Container? Better. There could be no delusions of pretend-it-never-happened. Mess disposed, evidenced tidied, floor sanitized, I washed the mystery person’s container, warmed my waiting pasta and beanballs, then returned to my desk to type a note to my coworkers. Subject line: “Sorry about your lunch.” My soy creamer, yogurt cups and entire meals have fallen to fridge phantoms. I like to believe it’s an accident, or maybe desperation, especially back in those jobs when the only spare food for miles came from a testy vending machine. Whether it's filched or spilled, food that’s missing when we expect it always leaves us righteously hungry, sadder but wiser to know we really can’t expect more. “If you had the yellow Tupperware container with a pasta dish inside, I apologize,” I wrote to our staff listserv. “It fell out when I pulled my lunch from the fridge, the lid came off and it splattered on the floor. It’s cleaned up and the container is washed. Happy to buy your lunch, just stop by my desk.” What followed was swift proof that we’ve suffered quietly through too much break room abuse. “How often do our lunches or sodas go missing and we never know why?” one colleague wrote to the entire staff. “What a stand-up thing to do.” “Like button,” came another response. Still another: “I

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Capitals-Rangers: Caps want to capture some of that road magic in Game 3 at home

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

After earning a split in New York to start of their Eastern Conference semifinal series, it would appear that things are setting up nicely for the Washington Capitals . They return home to Verizon Center as the series against the New York Rangers shifts venues for Games 3 and 4. Read full article > >

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Google splits stock as sales jump

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Internet giant Google reports a large jump in profits and sales as well as announcing a two-for-one split of its shares.

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Should the U.S. legalize hard drugs?

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Amelioration of today’s drug problem requires Americans to understand the significance of the 80-20 ratio. Twenty percent of American drinkers consume 80 percent of the alcohol sold here. The same 80-20 split obtains among users of illicit drugs. Read full article > >

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Mega Millions mystery solved: Three winners claim record-busting jackpot

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Two Maryland teachers and a school office worker who pooled their money to buy lottery tickets won the record-breaking Mega Millions jackpot and will split the $105 million prize, lottery officials said Tuesday. Read full article > >

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A court’s conundrum: When same-sex partners want to split

Monday, April 9th, 2012

When Jessica Port showed up in court Friday to pursue a divorce, she first stopped to consult with her lawyer. Then she crossed the room to hug her ex, chatting happily until it was time to be seated. Read full article > >

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Obama has aggressive Internet strategy to woo supporters

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Type in a Google search for the words “immigration reform,” and in the split second it takes for your results to pop up, the president’s reelection campaign may begin courting you. Up comes an ad for barackobama.com, next to the search results. Read full article > >

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Winning Tickets Sold in Kan., Ill., Md.

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Lottery ticket-holders in Kansas, Illinois and Maryland each selected the winning numbers and will split a $640 million jackpot that was believed to be the world’s largest such prize, a lottery official said Saturday.

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New Virginia voter ID law expected to face less opposition from DOJ than others

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

RICHMOND — Just days before the Obama administration blocked a Texas voter ID law , Virginia’s General Assembly approved a pair of voter ID bills of its own. GOP legislatures nationwide have been adopting stricter identification standards since the 2000 presidential election, saying they are needed to combat voter fraud. Read full article > >

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CIA divorces: The secrecy when spies split

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

The Fredericksburg woman divorcing her husband laid out all the messy details, including the most secret of them all. Her husband, she wrote in now-sealed court documents, is a covert operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency. His CIA job, she said, poisoned their five-year-old marriage. Read full article > >

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Biking the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal from Pittsburgh to D.C.

Friday, March 9th, 2012

The only sound in the crystalline mountain air was the crunch of our bicycle tires on the crushed limestone path. We’d pedaled around a bend, leaving behind the frothing Youghiogheny River and its whitewater rafters. Now, as we paused to split an orange, my husband and I looked down the path ahead of us, through the springtime trees just beginning to leaf out. The morning sun slanting between their narrow trunks striped the trail with parallel bars of light and shadow. Read full article > >

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Santorum Up 34 Votes in Iowa

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

GOP calls it a ‘split decision.’

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Oil interests push China into Sudanese mire

Sunday, December 25th, 2011

JUBA, South Sudan — At a restaurant along the River Nile offering crocodile and ostrich meat, officials of the world’s newest — and desperately destitute — nation hosted a lunch this month for Liu Guijin, China’s visiting envoy for African affairs. Liu’s visit to Juba, the dirt-track capital of South Sudan , which split from Sudan in July, came at a tense time: Sudan had just bombed a refugee camp, armed militias were mining roads, and troops were clashing in disputed border areas . Read full article > >

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