Appeal of long-distance relationship could be the distance (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
A reader writes: "I live in a big city and I meet plenty of women, but I find I'm not interested in any of them. Recently, though, I reconnected with an old friend when she was in town."
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Tell Me About It: If he wants an open relationship, say bye (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Question: My boyfriend and I are attempting a long-distance college relationship, with the plan that it will be long-distance only for a finite amount of time.
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Don't call it mumblecore (Salon.com)
Ultra-indie American film grows up in a hurry with Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's erotic, wrenching relationship drama "Nights and Weekends."
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Erin McLean: 'It was a huge mistake' (Knoxville News Sentinel)
Like everyone else in Knoxville, I was shocked by the crime. The March 10, 2007, shooting death of teenager Sean Powell took place only a few blocks from my own family's home, as well as my office at WBIR, Channel 10. Each day, as I drove past the North Knoxville house that Eric and Erin McLean had shared with their two young sons, I wondered whether I had ever nodded to this couple in the ...
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The separate peace of John and Carol (The Standard-Times)
In early 1980, John McCain was a man in transition — and in a hurry.
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How one man gamed the defense spending system (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
They huddled in a quiet corner at the US Airways lounge at Ronald Reagan National Airport, sipping bottomless cups of coffee as they plotted to turn America's missile defense program into a personal cash machine.
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Frankly, that’s love (The Star)
Chinese actress Hu Jing and Malaysian businessman Frank Choo’s long-distance courtship led them down the aisle.
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Vigo County Clerk Election Preview (Terre Haute Tribune Star)
The current Vigo County clerk, who is running for re-election, says the office is running as efficiently as it can under the circumstances, while her challenger for the office says he has plenty of ideas for increasing efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
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1,000 years of 'Genji' (The Japan Times)
"Genji Monogatari," known as "The Tale of Genji" in English, is believed by many scholars to be the first full-length novel in world literature. Marking the 1,000th anniversary since its creation, today's Timeout introduces this masterpiece that draws readers into a beautiful world gone by full of passion, pleasures and sorrows of men and women. But to begin with, skeptics may wonder how the ...
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Essex County supervisors balk at 911 bills for Long Lake (Adirondack Daily Enterprise)
ELIZABETHTOWN - Mounting charges associated with an agreement to provide emergency dispatching services to Long Lake have caused Essex County supervisors to question how far a good-neighbor policy toward the small Hamilton County town should go.
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