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Karrueche Tran emotionally opens up about her love triangle with Chris Brown and Rihanna in an interview on "Just KeKe," where host KeKe Palmer asks the model about the "drama" surrounding the two relationships.
"The reason why people tuned into this so much was because it's relatable," says Tran, explaining, "It's the case of the ex. We all go through it." She continues, "In this case, my boyfriend is a celebrity whose ex-girlfriend is even bigger… so, not only am I fighting a battle with her, I'm fighting a battle with her 14 million fans or however else." "Imagine how that feels for me when I gotta get on Twitter and I gotta see a whole bunch of stuff," Tran tells Palmer. "They make up all kinds of crazy stuff and it's like they know nothing about me."
Tran points out that she often chooses to "stay so mute" when it comes to the hate she receives, but that can become a catch-22. "That leaves open space for them to say whatever they want," she notes.
The interview turns emotional when Palmer asks Tran what has been the "hardest" thing to deal with, and Tran begins to cry. "I guess I would say the heartbreak, because it was a real situation," she says as her eyes fill with tears. The full interview is slated to air on BET on Tuesday. Check out the preview video below, and tell us what you think.


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NEW ORLEANS - The administrator of a multibillion-dollar settlement from the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf is pledging to thoroughly investigate allegations of misconduct by one of his staff attorneys.
Court-appointed claims administrator Patrick Juneau said in a statement Friday that both BP and claimants "rightfully expect fairness and objectivity from this claims process."
London-based BP issued a statement saying only a "comprehensive and independent investigation will ensure the integrity of the claims process."
BP previously sued to block what could be billions of dollars in payouts to businesses over the spill. The company says Juneau has made decisions that expose BP to fictitious losses that were never contemplated in the settlement.

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Nestled in the lush green woods of south-west Birmingham lies what is probably Britain's most inconspicuous Muslim seminary.
The Al-Mahdi Institute (AMI) is spread over four acres of land in what used to be known as the Collage of Ascension, a Christian theological seminary established in 1929 which was once affiliated with Birmingham University. Now it has become one of the largest hawzas, or Islamic seminaries, in the UK to formally study classic Islamic texts in their original language – including subjects like philosophy, mysticism and ethics.
While the existence of hawzas, or madaris, is not necessarily a new one in the West, the practise of undergoing the training required to become an Imam, or Sheikh, is a more recent phenomenon. While the chief centres of Islamic learning have traditionally been in Cairo, Madinah, Najaf or Qum, increasing numbers of Muslim students are choosing to study advanced training in Islamic Studies and Arabic closer to home.
AMI contends that their four-year 'Hawza Program', which offers students a grounding in reading, analysing and contextualising classical Arabic texts, with emphasis placed on the use of modern theories in the study of religion, theology and language, equates to eight years of education in Iran or Iraq. "We offer a hawza program that is offered in the seminaries of Qum and Najaf with an emphasis on modern methods of learning and a critical approach," says Dr Hashim Bata, a lecturer and former Hawza program graduate at AMI.
The Institute's emphasis on scholarly and academic rigour combined with an open and non-dogmatic approach to learning make it unique amongst other Islamic seminaries, and an attractive option for international students. The Institute's current Outreach Officer, Farhana Kapasi, chose to study the Hawza program after completing an MA in English Language and Literature in Mumbai.
"I came here to study Islamic sciences and to understand other religions in a more in-depth way," she says. "It was wonderful and eye-opening. We did a course on Comparative Religions, and as you know India is a diverse country; we've been brought up among people from different religions so there were always questions I had. Studying different sciences like theology, philosophy and mysticism gave me an insight into this religious pluralism."
More recently, the Al Mahdi Institute has extended its outreach by opening up its campus to other faith groups. One of its biggest initiatives includes the One Faith project, aimed at promoting greater tolerance of all faiths by encouraging local places of worship to open their doors to anyone, irrespective of their religious inclination.
"The idea has been extrapolated from one of the habits of the Prophet," says Riaz Walji, a lecturer and member of the education and research board.
"The Prophet would also allow Christians and Jews to utilize the mosque for their own use. We are also open to Sikhs, Buddhists, or those from no religion – anyone who wants to contemplate," he adds. "They can do their own ceremonies in our centre, and we want them to do the same for us. Our aim right now is to find other religious centres to subscribe to this ethos as well."
AMI also stresses its efforts to bridge the gap between Muslim schools of thought. The faculty includes lecturers from both the Sunni and Shi'a schools of thought and guest speakers from other communities are regularly invited. "After Jum'a prayer we welcome clergy and clerics [from other Muslim traditions] to recite the Jum'a sermons and we sometimes have a discussion afterwards," says Dr Bata.
This approach extends to the Institute's research of classical and contemporary Islamic Studies, says Ali-Reza Bhojani, a post-doctoral research fellow and lecturer. Academic contributions come from a range of scholars with diverse backgrounds and recent research activities have included contemporary fiqhi [jurisprudential] issues workshops (focusing on the age of maturity, marriage, age of consent and mental health issues), public seminars and research bursaries.
AMI is a great opportunity for scholars to present cutting edge research, says Bhojani. "The idea is to bring people in from different backgrounds. We're equally learning from the Sunni scholar as well as the Shi'a. There's a genuine belief in the value of diverse perspectives."
[Al-Mahdi Institute's Musallah (Chapel). The Christian community has used it to host their Sunday Service and Sunni brothers have led Jum'ah [Friday] prayers and recited Khutbah (sermon) in this Chapel.


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Ororo always preferred to ruminate out of doors, especially at night. The cool light of the stars, the breeze tickling her skin, the ground beneath her bare feet -- it relieved her stress. The elements aided her when she was troubled, and she was troubled that night.
Something was wrong with Jean, something more than just readjusting to life at the mansion. To Ororo, Jean seemed to be floundering, her smile a little too wide to be genuine, her eyes reflecting uncertainty. Ororo supposed that awakening in a hospital in San Antonio and learning you'd lost ten months of your life to an amnesiac fog would be disconcerting at the very least. But what troubled Ororo was that Jean seemed to have lost her fire, her passion, and her certainty.
Ororo wandered the large lawn, searching for some logical connection between the Jean she remembered and this new Jean, affectionately dubbed Phoenix by the professor. Ororo was an excellent judge of people, and she'd been told more than once that she was an excellent listener. Perhaps she could engage Jean, get her to open up--
Ororo stilled, quieting her breath to listen more closely. She'd heard something that sounded like -- there. Sobbing.
Frowning, Ororo moved towards the sounds, spotting a huddled figure in the shadows. The person's identity would've been obscured by the deep shadows, but Marie's platinum streaks shone brilliantly even in the dim starlight.
"Rogue?" Ororo said softly, stopping several feet away from the distraught girl. She knew Rogue wasn't a violent person, but Scott and Logan had both taught her some good self-defense moves, and Ororo didn't feel the need to test Rogue's reflexes.
Rogue's entire body jerked at the sound of Ororo's voice, her head snapping up. Luminous eyes locked onto Ororo. "I'm fine," she lied.
"You are not fine, Rogue," Ororo answered reasonably, "or you would not be crying out here in the dark." Ororo noticed Rogue's bike abandoned near the driveway and frowned. "Are you injured?"
Rogue laughed bitterly and shook her head. "Not really."
Puzzled, Ororo moved closer. "You were in the city."
"I can't talk about this," Rogue muttered, her gloved hands cradling her head as she rocked slowly back and forth.
Alarmed, Ororo crouched beside the girl. "Rogue, what happened?" she asked gently, laying a hand on Rogue's gloved forearm.
At the contact, Rogue burst into action, flinging Ororo's hand away and pushing herself upright. "Don't *touch* me, you bitch!"
Years of training had honed Ororo's reflexes so well that she was able to recover her balance and rise in the same fluid motion. She stared at Rogue's shocked expression and hoped that her instinctive guess at what had happened in the city was wrong.
"I'm sorry," Rogue said, her words dripping Mississippi molasses the way they did when she was truly upset. "Oh, God. I'm *sorry,* Ororo." Her voice was thin and edgy, and she began to back away, tears spilling down her cheeks. "I didn't mean -- I can't--"
"Rogue?" Ororo's tone was low and soothing. "Please, tell me what happened so that I can help you."
Rogue shook her head, her hands fluttering in the air before her, an unsteady shield against Ororo's gentle approach. "I can't."
"I can help," Ororo promised, hoping to Goddess that she could.
"No," Rogue denied. "You can't. I shouldn't have done it, 'Ro. I didn't want to."
Ororo kept her expression the same, didn't allow her anger to show. She'd guessed correctly, and she thought she knew what Rogue had done to survive.
Ororo wanted Jean's help with the situation. She was not telepathic in the least, but Jean had once said that when someone is projecting strongly, psychic ability isn't necessary to reach a telepath. Ororo wanted to give a mental scream for help, but figured Rogue's fragile state would be ill-served by the X-Men arriving ina panic.
"I know you didn't want to," Ororo assured Rogue, approaching her as she would a skittish colt, arms held low and out to the sides in a purposefully non-threatening posture.
"He wouldn't stop," Rogue confessed, her voice suffused with shame. "He was so strong and I didn't expect it and he was so nice to me before. I don't know *how* he was so nice, because he *hates,* Ororo." Her voice lowered to a whisper. "He *hates.*"
Ororo stopped near Rogue, not wanting to push the girl. She simply made encouraging noises as the story spilled from Rogue's lips.
"I knew I would hurt him like I hurt David and Logan, and I *told* him to stop." She bent her head, speaking now to her hands, too ashamed to meet Ororo's gaze. "I couldn't get out from under him, 'Ro. I couldn't. I swear."
"I know," Ororo murmured, though she suspected Rogue was past hearing her.
"I'm so sorry," Rogue cried, meeting Ororo's gaze with wide, anguished eyes. "I had to touch him to make him stop. I had to."
"Is the boy...?" Ororo couldn't say it, not while Rogue was looking at her with such despair.
"I don't think so," Rogue answered. "I called 911."
Ororo nodded. "It's okay, Rogue."
"No," Rogue snapped angrily. "It's not okay."
"It's not," she cried, her fingers flying to her cheeks, raking forward brutally. If she hadn't been wearing the gloves, she might've drawn blood with her fingernails. "He's inside my head."
Alarmed, Ororo reached for Rogue's hand. "Please, Rogue, come inside."
Rogue didn't seem to hear Ororo's pleas. She threaded her fingers into her hair, her gaze unfocused. "So much anger. He hates. His stepfather used to come into his room and -- and -- *do* things."
Panicked, Ororo watched the girl slip further into her own head, drowning in this man's traumatic memories. Ororo projected for all she was worth. *Rogue needs help!*
"It's so awful," Rogue moaned, stumbling, falling to one knee. "It's awful the way he touches me. His hands are too big and too rough. And he makes me touch him. I'm so dirty."
"Rogue, no," Ororo said, paralyzed, wanting to reach out, to enfold the girl in a comforting embrace. But would Ororo's touch help Rogue or push her further into the memories?
"Don't *call* me that!" Rogue snapped.
*Ororo?* Xavier asked. *Where are you?*
*Out front. Send Jean.*
Rogue peeled off one glove, then the other, ignoring Ororo's protests. Her nails weren't long, but she dug them into the palm of her other hand, scratching her skin roughly.
"Rogue," Ororo ordered. "Stop this." She didn't have gloves, and she knew it was dangerous to get too close to an ungloved Rogue when she was trapped in someone else's nightmare.
*Where are you?* Jean this time, sounding panicked.
Ororo allowed Jean access, allowed her to see the scene unfolding. *She was on a date. He tried to rape her.*
Jean didn't answer with words, but Ororo was nearly reduced to tears as Jean's wave of rage and sadness merged with her own.
Ororo grabbed Rogue's discarded gloves and tugged them on. She still had too much exposed skin, but she reached out for Rogue anyway, catching her bare wrists and praying to the Goddess that this wouldn't compound Rogue's trauma. The girl hadn't managed to draw blood yet, but her palms were scored with angry lines. She struggled in Ororo's grip.
"Rogue," Ororo said sharply, hoping to pull her out of her attacker's nightmares. "Rogue, we need you."
She was still trying to shred the skin of her palms. "No," Rogue answered, attempting to pull away.
And then Jean was there, focused on the tearful girl. "Rogue, please let me bring you inside."
"Get away from me!" There was still hysteria in Rogue's voice, but her southern drawl was back.
Jean went quiet, her eyes fixed intently on Rogue, and Ororo recognized that she was trying to reach Rogue telepathically. Ororo held Rogue's wrists as loosely as possible and kept murmuring soothing words.
After a long, tense few minutes, Rogue wilted into Ororo's embrace. Carefully, Ororo wrapped her arms around the girl and rubbed her back as she cried. Over her shoulder, Ororo met Jean's eyes.
*She's in bad shape,* Jean sent, looking shaken.
*I know. Did she show you--?*
*Yes.* Jean opened up the connection, allowing some images to flow into Ororo's mind.
Ororo stifled a gasp and tightened her hold on Rogue, trying to anchor her to reality physically as Jean was doing mentally. "It's okay, Rogue," Ororo crooned as she helped the girl towards the house. "Everything's going to be okay."
Ororo glanced at Jean and saw her own doubt reflected in the other woman's face. There was, at that point, so much tragedy in Rogue's mind, Ororo wondered if the girl would ever truly be okay again.
The second time, I knew exactly what I was doing.
My primary goal was to get help. I didn't know how else to make them understand how bad things had become. I really didn't have words to describe the horrors, to describe the urges to cut this dirty skin, to punish my freakish body for putting me through this hell.
I thought they'd understand. After 'Ro and Jean took care of me the night Tim attacked me, I thought they'd finally seen me as an adult, as someone with serious problems and serious abilities. They talked me down and held me as I cried and agreed with me when I forbade them to call Logan. Tim had lived through my counterattack, though just barely, and I didn't need Logan's vengeance on my conscience as well.
Tim hadn't succeeded in raping me, not physically. But the irrational, primal fear of violence and death I'd experienced pinned down to that couch had convinced me that I wanted to live. It surprised me to realize that before that moment of clarity, I hadn't been sure of that. My previous narcotic mishap made a sickening, scary sort of sense, and I realized that I really didn't want to die. I wanted to live, and I'd do almost anything to get away from Tim.
Then I got a dose of Tim's demons, and living with *those* memories along with Logan's and Magneto's nightmares was less than appealing. I had fewer and fewer moments of tranquility, moments of pure Marie, without foreign impulses and foreign memories and foreign nightmares shadowing my mind.
I got better, though. Slowly. With Jean's and Ororo's help. Scott and the professor tried to help, tried to be solicitous, but only other women really understand the feelings of helplessness and fatalism that a sexual assault gives you. I know Logan would've come back if I'd called him, but he would've looked at me with tortured eyes, given me a fierce hug, and then set out to kill Tim. I didn't need him to avenge what happened to me, I just needed that sense of understanding, of being understood. I think only women can give me that, because only women live with the very real possibility of being brutalized simply for being female.
For a while, I thought I might do better, might be able to open up to Ororo and Jean with the rest of it. I thought I could explain that remembering Tim's abuse at the hands of his stepfather was tearing me apart. I thought I could find the words to share my fear that I was losing myself, losing Marie in the sea of other memories and impulses and thoughts swimming around in my brain. I even considered letting Jean into my mind, letting her try to fix me.
But as I gained some weight back and stopped crying so much, they slid back into their familiar patterns. The crisis was past, and now everything was supposed to go back to normal, which meant that I was once again Rogue, the troubled girl. I came to understand that they would let me vent and cry to them about my problems, but they would never reciprocate. It wouldn't even occur to them that I could understand Jean's struggle to assimilate back into this life after ten months of unknown hell. They weren't my friends; they felt a sense of responsibility for my well-being.
And so I pulled away. I gave them false smiles and platitudes, and they were so eager for me to get better that they let themselves believe I was healed.
This time, my familiar isolation came with a bitter resentment. This time when I swallowed the pills, I planned it very carefully.
I didn't really want to die. I wanted to pain to stop, sure, and I wanted someone to *see* me, to see my pain and help me deal with it. But I admitted to myself as I swallowed the pills with swigs from a bottle of gin that if my plan failed and I did die, maybe it would be for the best. At least the nightmares would stop.
Jean was the one who found me, just as I'd planned, and this time, she had activated charcoal on hand. I woke to the familiar beep of the machines, a circle of grim, concerned faces, and a vague feeling of disappointment. They'd saved me again, but this time they refused to accept my excuses about the nightmares. This time, the professor got me professional help.
For a few weeks, I let myself believe that this therapist, this Melissa Avery could help me. She was human, but completely at ease with the idea of mutants. Instead of fear she gave me an outlet. I poured out my grief and my rage and my mind-numbing terror, and she listened with empathy and allowed me to believe maybe Marie could survive the near-constant assault of foreign thoughts and feelings.
And then a trip to her office in Manhattan turned into an ambush, and Jean came out the other side... wrong, somehow. And, predictably, it all went to hell because of me.
Jean felt incredible empathy for Rogue. Jean had come dangerously close to losing her sanity when her own powers first manifested, before the professor had taught her to shield herself against the thoughts of others. But Rogue wasn't hearing other people's thoughts; other people's thoughts lived on inside her mind. For her to be still standing after the hand life had dealt her was an impressive display of willpower.
The suicide attempts were more than worrisome, but the therapy really seemed to be helping the girl. Jean didn't particularly enjoy driving into Manhattan and cooling her heels in the waiting room reading back issues of Time, but she felt a responsibility towards Rogue. And so she was the girl's regular chaperone, three times a week, ten a.m. Rogue would usually come out a little calmer, a little more at ease than when she went in, and that was enough for Jean.
Jean herself was still having trouble reconciling her internal convictions with those of the X-Men, with those of the professor, whom she'd once looked up to for everything. She couldn't understand her own stubborn pragmatism, and that scared her. Before her missing months, she'd subscribed to Xavier's idealistic view of the world. She'd believed that some things were right, and some things were wrong, and the ends never justified the means. She'd believed the X-Men could prevent Magneto's war.
Now, though, she struggled against a crushing fatalism, a bone-deep knowledge that the war had already begun, and survival at all costs should be her first priority. She no longer believed in stark, polar opposites, in pure good and pure evil. She knew that war was dirty and it was anything but black and white. The worst part was that she suspected she'd undergone this paradigm shift while she was missing, and try as she might, she couldn't remember anything. She wanted her old certainty back. She wanted to believe in the professor's optimistic view of the future.
Some days she thought she should be the one talking to Rogue's therapist.
Five weeks into Rogue's intensive therapy sessions, Jean looked up from her magazine when she heard the clomp-clomp of booted steps in the hallway. Many sets of boots. A thrill of panic across her nerves, and Jean was up and standing near the interior door. She didn't want to disturb Rogue for a false alarm, but the door to the hallway burst open and seven well-armed men in flak jackets streamed into the waiting room.
Jean didn't even bother telling herself they were here by coincidence; she knew they were here for the mutants.
The receptionist froze, mouth agape. It was too early for the next appointment to be here, and Jean thought the office next to this one was unoccupied. The hallway opened directly onto 94th, and above them were apartments, likely empty in the middle of the day. This was a well-planned operation, Jean surmised grimly, and she and Rogue were on their own.
Jean stood her ground and reached out for Rogue with her mind. *We've got company.*
A burst of panic and fear gave Jean a momentary headache, and then Rogue answered. *What do you want me to do?*
*Get Dr. Avery out of here.* Aloud, Jean said politely, "Can I help you?"
The soldiers were standing at alert, guns ready, but pointed at the floor. Plain black combat pants, Kevlar vests, no telltale patches to announce their allegiance. Jean figured an unmarked black SUV was double-parked outside at the curb.
"The easy way," the man on point said, "would be to come with us willingly."
Jean smiled. "Do you really think that's going to happen?" she asked, even as she tried to figure out why they'd want Rogue, why they'd want her. The Professor was miles away, but her powers were much, much stronger than they used to be. *Charles, someone's sent a team after us.*
The leader allowed himself a small smile, one that told Jean how much he was looking forward to manhandling a couple of mutant women. "No."
*Scott and Ororo are heading for the Blackbird,* Charles answered her after a moment. *How many?*
*Seven inside.* She shook her head in frustration. *Don't send them yet. They can't land the Blackbird on the Upper East Side. I'll get us out.*
The door at Jean's back opened, and Rogue stepped through, dressed casually in jeans and a long sleeved shirt. Her gloves were off, and Jean shot her a startled look. But Rogue's attention was focused on the men watching them, and she seemed more vibrant, more alive than she had in quite some time.
"How many can you take at once, Jean?" Rogue asked cheerfully.
Jean gave half a shrug. "Don't know." She reached out with her mind, flinging the leader and three others back against the wall hard. Momentarily stunned, their guns clattered to the floor, and Jean slid them across the room and behind the receptionist's desk. "Let's find out."
Rogue allowed herself a grin and moved forward, slipping into hand to hand combat with the man closest to her, who'd been so startled that he hadn't brought his weapon up in time. He was initially overconfident, outweighing his opponent by a hundred pounds. But Rogue gave as good as she got, evading most of the man's punches, landing more than one kick and knocking his gun away.
If she'd looked closely, Jean might've been alarmed at the small smile on Rogue's face, but she was too preoccupied by the action unfolding around her to notice. Two men fired at Jean, but she felt her power building and flicked the bullets away as if they were bees. The third man fired, and she reversed the bullet, hitting him in the shoulder; the professor had taught them all not to kill unless it was necessary.
But the soldiers were starting to recover, starting to get past their shock that two little women could put up a decent fight. Jean knocked two of their heads together fiercely, and they joined their bleeding colleague on the floor. Three stunned or injured, which left the odds at four to two, and not much time before they forced themselves back into the fight.
Rogue was still engaged with only one soldier, so Jean flung the leader back once more, sending him out into the hallway and slamming the door behind him. That left her two to deal with herself.
She ducked a punch and began to fight one soldier, tossing the couch at the other man and felling him. "We're going to win," he told her, grunting as he slammed her body against the wall. "Why don't you play nice?"
Jean allowed herself to slide into his mind, to concentrate on telepathy instead of telekinesis for a moment. She wanted to know why they were after her, but she got more information than she'd bargained for -- images of labs, of mutants tied down, strapped to machines, screaming in pain. Blood and vomit and ominous IV drips, feeding their chemicals into green skin, white skin, grey skin.
Her skin.
Jean's entire body tensed as she saw herself laid out on a steel table, naked, two men in white lab coats and one in fatigues staring down at her curiously. Jean's eyes snapped open in shock, and she remembered.
She remembered the anger and fear and pain. She remembered the sluggish, drugged feeling, the poking and prodding and abuse. She remembered being exposed, remembered staring up at leering, sneering faces. She remembered it all, and she sagged back against the wall.
The soldier took advantage of her distraction to land a solid punch to her cheekbone. Wincing, Jean spat blood onto the floor and kicked him hard, her shock rapidly subsumed by a fierce, burning anger. He stumbled a little, and she allowed the rage to overwhelm her, allowed her powers to overwhelm *them.*
She wasn't trying to stun them anymore, she was trying to kill the bastards who'd tied her to a table like a fucking lab rat. She'd die before she went back to that hell.
"Jean!" Rogue's shout sounded far away to Jean, as she sent furniture careening into the soldiers. Glass end tables shattered against shoulders, slicing arms raised in defense. Bones snapped under the onslaught of wooden chairs.
"Jean! Help!" There was panic in the girl's voice now, and Jean managed to pull herself out, to bring her power back into some semblance of control. She blinked, and saw the last soldier standing grab Rogue in a chokehold, slamming her back into the wall.
Panicked, Rogue reached out with her bare hand and touched the man's face before Jean could intervene. Rogue's strange power opened up, and the soldier made choking noises, his grip on slackening. Rogue gasped in a breath and let go, watching the man slump to the floor at her feet. Eyes wide in shock and confusion, Rogue looked up at Jean. "Jean?"
Grimly, Jean took a lamp and smashed it viciously on the unconscious man's head, not even wincing at the sickening sound. She met Rogue's stunned gaze and said, "Let's go."
After a moment, Rogue tugged her gloves back on, and followed Jean silently through the hallway, out the backdoor, into the alley. "What about the car?" Rogue asked.
"Probably being watched," Jean replied. "We need to get away. They're not taking us back."
The two women made their way quickly to Third Avenue, blending into the Manhattan crowds as they hurried downtown, towards 86th and the subway.
"Jean?" Rogue asked quietly, fear in her tone.
Jean shook her head but didn't answer. She didn't think she had the words to explain, didn't think she could bear admitting she'd been experimented on for months.
"Jean," Rogue said again, one gloved hand on her arm. "What happened? You--" She stopped, and Jean whirled to face her, ignoring the pedestrians flowing past.
"I what?" Jean demanded, her tone low and fierce. "I killed them, Rogue. They deserved killing."
Rogue shook her head just a little, frowning. Jean wanted to scream in frustration. They didn't have time for this. They needed to get underground. They needed to get back to the mansion. She wouldn't allow herself to be captured. She wouldn't. She couldn't stay at the mansion, not if they really wanted her back. She understood, with a sudden, bitter chuckle, why Logan was always on the run. He, too, had played unwilling guinea pig for -- Jean blinked, focusing once more on the girl before her.
"Rogue," she said. "They were there to take us into custody. Do you have Logan's memories about what they did to him?"
Flinching, Rogue tried to turn away, to melt back into the crowd, but Jean grabbed her arms in a viselike grip. "Jean," Rogue said, startled.
"Where do you think I was for ten months?" Jean demanded. "What do you think they would do if they got a hold of *you*?"
"You remember?" Rogue whispered. "You remember what happened to you?" If Jean didn't know better, she would think the girl looked relieved. "Logan's nightmares -- they're bits and pieces. He doesn't know who did it or why, but if you remember--"
"Rogue, I'm not concerned with why they did this," Jean interrupted angrily. "I was strapped to a table and experimented on. This is a war, Rogue, and it's time to pick a side."
"I already have," Rogue answered defensively. "The professor--"
"The professor will wait until it's too late, until the only option is fighting back. He missed the first battle already." Jean leaned closer. "You have Logan's memories. You know what's at stake. I can't wait for the professor to be ready to fight."
For a moment, Rogue looked up at Jean with old, tired eyes, eyes that reflected Jean's pragmatism. Then she glanced away and with a small shake of her head, Rogue said, "Jean, I think you should talk to--"
"Forget it," Jean interrupted brusquely, turning away from Rogue and moving quickly toward the subway entrance. She would get the girl safely back to Xavier, and maybe when she grew up she'd understand what Jean knew to be true.
She'd experienced firsthand exactly what Magneto had been afraid of these long years. No more halfway, she vowed, ushering Rogue into the subway. She wouldn't go back to being a labrat without one hell of a fight. It was kill or be killed, and if the professor didn't agree with her, she would find an ally who would.
When Logan arrived after Jean's defection, he told me not to blame myself. I thought it was an odd response at the time, since he still didn't know of my two suicide attempts. But more than that, it told me that he *did*, on some level, blame me. And rightfully so. If I hadn't crash-landed the Blackbird at Alkali Lake, Jean wouldn't have had to sacrifice herself in the first place. Whatever had happened to her for those ten months was, therefore, my fault.
And if I hadn't gone on that stupid date and gotten myself into a situation that resulted in my needing therapy, Jean wouldn't have been with me in Manhattan. And she wouldn't have confronted me in the middle of the sidewalk, talking about the war and sounding eerily like Magneto.
Again, Scott, Ororo, and the professor shut me out, questioning me for an hour or so before they curtly dismissed me. I thought I could read blame in their eyes, and I accepted it as my just desserts. Even Logan, who'd come back as soon as he heard the news, wouldn't talk to me in detail. He listened, though, when I explained that Jean claimed she'd been experimented on. I recounted our strange conversation, and Logan gave me a grim look and went to join the professor.
She'd deposited me at the mansion, sequestered herself for four hours, and then left after a brief meeting with the professor. For Scott, she left a handwritten note. Desolation settled over the mansion, as Scott and Ororo and the professor attempted to find Jean, to reason with her, to figure out what went wrong. Logan drank a lot and spent a lot of time in the Danger Room.
Logan and Scott went after her, they even found her once. I guess she refused to be reasoned with, and they arrived home with a palpable feeling of loss. No one bothered to share the details with me, and I was feeling too guilty to ask. I'd managed to lose them both the woman they loved.
Scott withdrew into himself, and Logan, predictably, took off. He stopped by my room and told me he wasn't taking the comm device this time. He gave me a piece of paper with a phone number on it, and said if I ever needed him, to leave a message and he'd be here. But I recognized that for what it was. A goodbye.
Jean was gone, so he had no real reason to keep in touch. He was cutting ties with the mansion, with the professor, and with me. This time, he didn't promise to protect me and he didn't tell me he'd be back, he just said to call if I needed him. Again, I was the girl who had to be coddled and cared for. He would come back in a heartbeat to protect me from an external threat, but the nightmares he'd given me, the traumas I experienced repeatedly care of Magneto and my would-be rapist, not to mention the new, intimate knowledge I had of what the government was doing to captured mutants care of that soldier -- that wasn't of any interest to him.
Logan had loved Jean, and she was lost to him, and it was my fault. He was mourning her, and he didn't have the time or energy to deal with my loss, with my guilt.
I repressed my anger and hurt and simply nodded at him. "Thanks," I said. "But I'm okay."
His eyes narrowed at that, and for a moment, I thought he'd see. I thought he'd understand. Then he dipped his chin once in acknowledgment and strode away.
That night, I drowned in the nightmares. I wasn't okay, but I thought I knew a way I could be. I managed almost two more months of living, of slogging through the day, of waking up screaming, before I experienced a sort of peace. It was such a relief, knowing this fresh hell was nearly over.
My newfound serenity went nearly unnoticed by the others, who were still reeling from Jean's loss. Ororo found me one night, sitting out in the garden, and she joined me on the bench. With a ghost of a smile, she said, "I am glad you're healing, Rogue."
I simply smiled.
Cliché it may be, but the third time really was the charm.
Professor Xavier maintained a faint link with his staff and students. Not an open link like the one that Scott and Jean had shared, but something much, much weaker. Something that merely allowed him to register their presence and, if danger arose suddenly, allowed him to receive their psychic cries for help. Anything more would be tiresome, and a significant breach of telepathic etiquette.
The links had served him well, over the years, and after Jean's defection and Logan's departure, he'd seriously considered strengthening them. If he'd had more insight into Jean's mind, he might have been able to understand her sudden dissatisfaction, he might have been able to prevent her from transferring her loyalties to Magneto. He might have been able to save her.
Xavier had mentioned his idea to Ororo, and she'd convinced him that the small possibility of a positive outcome far outweighed the negatives. She'd pointed out that the students would feel like Big Brother was watching, that they'd construct shields to keep him out. Gently, she'd added that Jean had made her own decisions, and even if they didn't agree with her choices, they had no right to try to alter her thoughts. In the end, Xavier had known she was right, and he kept the telepathic links as they'd always been -- feeble, but there.
On a warm spring evening not even two months after Jean's betrayal, Xavier realized too late that he'd made the wrong decision. He'd allowed another of his flock to slip away by virtue of his own ignorance. He was enjoying a brandy in his study, reading a collection of short stories when Rogue's telepathic cry startled him so badly he dropped the drink. The glass shattered on the hardwood floors, but Xavier didn't even notice.
*I'm sorry,* she was projecting, over and over. *I'm sorry, but I can't find any other way to make them stop. This isn't a mistake, and I'm sorry.*
*Rogue?* He let his eyes drift closed, saw what she was seeing -- the beauty of a sunset over the lake. The image rocked lazily, and he deduced that she was out on one of the boats. Her emotions roiled over him, guilt and fear and yearning for peace and anger and hurt and blame and a tiny light of hope.
Xavier concentrated on the hope, tried to send some of his own along. *Rogue, let me help you.*
*No,* she answered, growing more feeble by the second. *It's my fault that Jean's gone. Please tell Scott I'm sorry. It should've been me. Tell Logan--*
The connection wavered, and Xavier wheeled out of the study, down the hall, out the back door, onto the patio. He couldn't see her yet, but her presence was a little stronger as he drew closer to her.
*Rogue? Rogue, please. Tell me where you are.*
*The lake,* she answered, a strange euphoria lacing her thoughts. *I'm sorry, professor, but this is the only way. Tell Logan it's not his fault.*
*Rogue!* He could see her now, as he zoomed as fast as he could along the path to the boathouse. Xavier reached for Ororo, for Scott. *The lake. Now.*
Rogue was floating out towards the middle of the lake, half-lying in the canoe, her arms dangling over the edges, her wrists spilling blood into the water. The orange light of the setting sun glittered along the water, along her platinum streaks.
He knew it was too late, even as he felt Scott and Ororo react, heard their feet pounding down the path behind them. Rogue's presence wavered again.
*Rogue. Please, hold on. Ororo and Scott are coming.*
*Can't. Sorry. So beautiful. Peaceful.*
"Rogue!" He was yelling out loud now, stuck in his wheelchair on the dock, his useless legs not allowing him to save her. Her mind was weakening along with her body, and her control slipped, allowing Xavier to see, finally, what she'd been going through for months, for years.
He suffered at the hands of the Nazis, at the hands of the U.S. government, at the hands of his stepfather, all in the space of seconds. He felt a crushing wave of guilt over Jean's death, over her defection, and he experienced a longing for Logan so intense it stole his breath.
Scott reached the dock and dove in without even pausing to kick off his shoes, Ororo just steps behind.
Xavier waded out of Rogue's borrowed nightmares, shakily putting up partial barriers against the radiating despair.
*I'm sorry.* It was the faintest of whispers across his mind, and he knew, then, that they were far too late to save her.
Ororo and Scott reached the canoe quickly, pulled her bleeding wrists out of the water, crossed them over her chest even as her presence winked out in Xavier's mind.
*Rogue? Rogue?*
Nothing. Nothing but Ororo's burning panic, and Scott's fear and anger, and their view of Rogue's pale, pale face, the angry wounds on her wrists, the small smile on her lips. Scott and Ororo worked frantically to bring the canoe in, to save her.
Xavier sat in his wheelchair, his head in his hands, and told them, *It's too late. She's gone.* He felt their shock and despair, these two remaining students of his, these two who had lost so much already.
Their motions lost some urgency, replaced with a shocked reverence as they swam towards shore, on either side of the canoe that bore Rogue's lifeless body.
Xavier attempted to clear his thoughts of the vibrant images, of the raw pain, and forced himself to sit up. He forced himself to watch Scott and Ororo bringing Rogue's body home. A half hour later, he forced himself into Cerebro and located Logan. *Call me. It's about Rogue.*
He closed the connection down before Logan could ask questions, but not before he felt Logan's flare of panic. When the phone rang minutes later, Xavier was the one to answer.
"What's wrong?" Logan demanded gruffly.
"I have some bad news," Xavier started. "Rogue--"
"Is she okay?"
"No," Xavier said. "I'm afraid she's not."
"What the hell are you--?"
"Logan, Rogue is dead."
Logan's denial was immediate, reflexive, but Xavier could read the bitter knowledge in his words. He welcomed Logan's rage and accusations with a numb equanimity, knowing he deserved worse. He didn't allow himself to break down when Logan did, didn't allow himself the comfort of tears even after Logan slammed the phone down, severing the connection.
A telepath living in the same house with a girl who'd tried to kill herself twice, and he'd still failed to see. Until the end, until she'd been too weak to keep him from seeing. And Xavier knew he'd go to his grave with those bleak images imprinted on his soul.
I watch them and I don't understand.
They all blame the voices in my head for making me do this. They think I was too weak, that the personalities I'd absorbed killed me. Even now, they've misunderstood me. If it weren't so tragic, I might have a good laugh over it.
All I ever wanted in life was someone to understand what was happening to me, and even in death, no one does. Logan's the worst. He blames himself, the nightmares he shared with me. He blames himself for stabbing me, for forcing me to touch him and absorb his tragedies.
I don't think anyone's explained how many other nightmares I'd acquired before my death. They don't tell him because they all feel guilty. They should've known, they tell themselves, that the nightmares were getting to be too much.
They're right, in a way. The nightmares and the rest -- that is why I decided on this course, but not because the voices in my head were telling me I should die. Are you kidding? The thoughts and urges and feelings and memories were fighting for dominance, for control over me, over my body, over my mind. They wanted me to live so that *they* could live.
And I lost more and more of myself, I tread water as long as I could, but in the end, I made the only decision I could. I slit my traitorous skin and removed myself from the equation. Tim's hatred of women and the nameless soldier's hatred of mutants and Magneto's fear and Logan's anger -- they were turning me into something I wasn't. They were turning me into someone who would hate, someone who would kill without remorse. And my skin is so potent, I knew I couldn't afford to lose my conscience.
A woman with nothing to lose and deadly skin -- that scared me more than the thought of falling into the hands of Jean's tormentors. I couldn't allow myself to become a weapon.
I didn't want to die, not really. I would've preferred to live, to be Marie, but I didn't see that as a possibility, not these last few months. So I sacrificed myself for the greater good. Just like Jean did at Alkali Lake.
But instead of the reverence she earned, I was cursed by Logan for my selfishness. Until he found the letters I'd written, that is. Then he cursed himself for his selfishness, for not seeing my pain. But he still thinks that he could've saved me, which means he thinks that I lost myself somewhere along the line.
The professor is the only one who even tries to understand, but even he thinks that ultimately, Marie was too weak to keep the voices at bay. Marie caved into the darkness in her head.
Marie didn't give up, I want to tell them all. Marie won. They all think the voices in her head killed Marie, but Marie killed the voices in her head.
If I'd stayed alive, I wouldn't have been Marie for much longer. I would've been some amalgam of anger and fear and vengeance and hate and the kiss of death. My fondest wish is that I could've cut the foreign elements out of my brain, excised the demons so that Marie could live.
But that wasn't a possibility, so I cut my skin instead, and Marie took them all with her when she died.
Logan, the professor -- they wouldn't understand, as ever, and so I go to my grave, and no one will ever know what happened to me. I'm only a little bitter, though.
I think I'm almost ready to forgive them.
Logan found Marie's stash of letters the night he got back.
He went first down to the lab, where her pale, still body lay awaiting burial, the jagged wounds on her wrists cutting into his soul. He'd touched her face, letting his fingertips slide over her porcelain skin, flinching at the unnatural coolness. He'd pressed his lips to hers, he'd kissed her closed eyes, her forehead, the back of her ungloved hands, spilling tears onto her harmless skin.
But nothing changed the fact that she was dead, and he was hours too late to pour his healing energy into her. Months too late to save her.
He'd retreated to her room, wrapped himself in the blanket that still smelled like her, and he'd cried until he couldn't breathe.
He lay there for hours afterwards, falling into numbness, unable to summon the energy to move, afraid if he let himself feel again, he'd tear the mansion down with his claws.
When the daylight faded into darkness, he rose, searching her room for some reason she would do this, for something that would make her suicide make sense. He found a shoebox full of letters she'd written. Letters addressed to him. Letters that spelled out her pain in raw, vibrant detail.
He'd read them through four times in a row, charting her progress from unstable to suicidal, feeling his rage -- at Scott, at Ororo, at Xavier, at the absent Jean -- building until he roared his anguish.
Logan knew the entire house probably heard him, but Ororo was the one to knock at the door. "Go away," he growled.
"Go," he repeated, voice shaking with rage, "away."
She hesitated, though she didn't say anything further. Logan growled fiercely and popped his claws. He didn't trust himself not to lash out at her if she entered, and if he lashed out, he would kill her.
He would kill Ororo, who should've seen this, and Scott, who should've known, and Xavier, who should've recognized Marie's downward spiral. He would kill them, and it wouldn't help, because as much as they'd hurt Marie, as much as she'd needed them to understand her pain, she'd written these letters to *him.*
He'd sworn to protect her, and he had failed. And he had dozens of letters to remind himself. Not that he'd ever be able to forget.
That night was the first time he'd slit his wrists, the first time he'd roared in anger when he healed too quickly. He knew, then, what Marie'd gone through, what she'd felt those last few moments on the boat as her life seeped out.
But the pain faded as his skin sealed the wounds, regenerating until it was good as new.
Logan left right after the funeral, a small lock of platinum hair in a locket hanging from a silver chain around his neck, nestled against his skin. Her letters were reverently tucked into his duffel bag, lashed to the bike.
He didn't say anything to the remnants of the X-Men. Didn't need to. Their hollow eyes and grim smiles confirmed that they already knew he wouldn't be back. They'd carry on, just as they did before Jean's death, before Marie's suicide. They'd teach little mutant children and fight their little battles, and nothing would change.
Logan would carry on, too, but he couldn't be a part of this anymore. Not without Marie.
So he nodded once, climbed onto his bike, and roared away.
Not every night, but often enough that it should scare him, Logan slit his wrists and watched them heal. He thought he might be able to live again, if only he could bear Marie's scars on his skin.
RAINN (http://rainn.org) operates a rape and sexual assault hotline and AWARE has a list of suicide hotlines (http://www.awarefoundation.org/aware/resources/suicide_hotlines.asp).
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Author's Note: Nothing in this story was fun or easy to write, but Rogue's unique mutation is such a potentially destabilizing one I couldn't seem to stop myself from exploring the darker possibilities. Thanks for reading.
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With a stay at Hotel Landgut Horn in Bremen, you'll be close to Rhododendron-Park and Weser Stadium. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Focke Museum and Sendesaal.
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SI.com's Ian Thomsen joins D&C to speculate about what moves the Celtics might make in the wake of Rajon Rondo's injury. While we'll probably hear a lot about Paul Pierce, Thomsen doesn't see a great deal coming involving the veteran forward. This could be an opportunity for Boston's young guys to grow together as the new core of the team.
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Joining us on the AT&T hotline AT&T forgy LTV Sports Illustrated NBA writer Ian Thompson no one is as well connected with the NBA and Boston in particular and our friend Ian good morning Ian how aria. -- -- -- on -- a quick off the top of my head question whose job is more daunting at the moment Danny trying to fix this. Pro personnel standpoint. Or -- trying to adjust to life with x.s and o.s on the court without -- Oh I think it's totally dark because there isn't much that -- can do about it. Or maybe they should do about it I mean should he make a big trade -- try to salvage the season and I I don't. Think they will. It doesn't make any sense that they would. They two pronged approach coming into this year than I mean it's clear by their actions they want to give themselves a chance to win this year but they also wondered. Lay the foundation president next era for when. Not pierce and Garnett were not around in there he told me. Last year in that. One reason to bring back those guys to look forward to having him back. Letters to have young players playing in the presence of and guidance. Also -- -- that had won the championship and worked hard every -- especially Kevin Garnett. So alone. I think now owe it becomes obvious is that the way forward. You know you try to do the best he can this year but you don't trade up and the thing that has any long term value tried to do better this year they couldn't -- trade. For somebody that they see is -- in the future or or for draft picks or something like that that I can see them doing that but. It can go out and get some guys it's 34 years old it's gonna help them. When a couple more games secured to succeed applicable. So even if the next ten games -- 23 days before the trading deadline they go like one and nine used think this is still going to be about tutelage about letting these younger people these these eight or nine new faces that Danny has assembled for. Ostensibly the future the learn how to play Celtic basketball under Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett. All landed fickle one and I'm not there then. Everything is more so on the cable sports trading away from peach piece. You know book the one guy I don't think you're ever the tree and what he wants to its Kevin Garnett goes. You talk it would Grousbeck in stock and everybody cared. Mean wickedness. Kevin that credit for raising the standards for the entire organization cross board there and so laden. In and when you think about Kevin didn't want to leave the timberwolves when they were awful and he felt betrayed. When they told him that we'd -- to -- Obama touched a low number younger pieces. And the -- great relations with not so I I don't see him. Wanted to be traded and and -- I don't see them wanting to trade him and almost electric Bill Russell -- -- -- the story I think because. They want to trade him in the past. I think he understands that he can be traded. In and I don't think he'd make it stink out of that. In and so the so becomes is it that goes downhill fast but I really don't think it will go about. At least but it does then. And think -- look at everybody. Except for. Except for Iraq. About Bradley and or sellinger we a lot of trade proposals. Ideas in front of us here from different people different media guys. A number of them include. Good young player like Bradley or -- DC either of them being included in a deal if if pierce is the is that the guy that goes you thinking goes alone Ian or does someone go with them. You know what I honestly Carrier Dome that think that to misconstrue that it's so hard and making sixty million in that can be so hard to find a partner. Can take money does -- five million dollar buyout led police from next year but that's a big. Now on the money for somebody to -- cannot play especially. The new luxury tax is going into effect next year. So. I I doubt that. I really get I think we'll hear Pierce's name a lot and all the -- and actually I really doubt that that they'll make a deal that's worthwhile for them. It's hard including Bob Bradley sowell entered that's where I'm sure they're gonna be really careful because you just don't want to make a lateral move where. Okay you're trading. Saw soldiers part of the deal and essentially all your -- from including -- in his efforts trumka well ballot. You just given the way the bird man though because here. He'll be hoping to get somebody is credited him somebody could grab -- with the first round pick in the -- -- -- -- -- think -- -- -- -- look at -- I look at. When -- -- -- big deal for a reality Kevin Garnett years ago they have been building up there -- a -- competing doing it and and that took a long time and then it gets altered their stuff together so they can make those kind of deal. They have not. Invested in entry in these concentrate now that's obviously been trying to win championships last year and they're just not ready yet as a team. To compete against all these other teams we have been making not content investment and that had been planning for the future on that play can consider -- -- here. And and it's more financially than ever because new logic. Well they have -- an eighth place in the east and most of that all of that was -- -- they lost six straight before Sunday. You honestly think in that dark Danny and the whole crew looks at this team and thinks he can make it run in the second half and thinks he can win a playoff series or two. No no. The team that went. This has 32 lead over Miami last year. I would submit reports starts on that team and undergone two. And there's been a lot of frustration with the supporting cast. So in in the big complaint one of the big complaint was that there was no -- Toronto. So those three page he had them all up. Against. You know Miami. Has been coasting that's going to be going better Derrick -- is gonna come back Chicago's commuter. Danny Granger and come back in the end they're going to be better. Andrew Bynum says he's feeling greed on the other days they're open he's going to be back. Maybe even before the all star break there what two and a half behind Boston's lead like that last swat. I'm Milwaukee I was sits on the pole and then yesterday there has the Celtics. In bay. People think that they may contact Eric -- puck into -- -- -- guys are shooting. Below their normal percentages and the -- got our reporters on the -- those terrible and or so years playing better just recently and the best defender -- lump on Leucadia would Al. With a knee injuries to recover and answered it first got here he's playing better. Milwaukee actually expects to play at least as well you know now if not better over the course second half but not a fluke what they're doing they're not playing over their -- at all so. You put all that together and you know it. There's a lot pride on the Celtics and docket is tremendous coach and maybe they can and make the playoffs that. -- anybody -- talk about trying to make a run and pianist -- We're talk to a sports Illustrated's Ian Thomson and Ian when all is said and done. And this community -- plays itself out for point guard. The last man standing at the point would be Courtney Lee Avery brought Bradley or just the old simple answer all your web two point forward. Well Paul Pierce have to be that guy and he's tremendous at it. And it's continued he had it is age. Do it night after night and then Camille the stock rather bail me that's -- key undoing past being the guy that big gulf war I mean that's. That's the easiest -- that's the guy that knows them well. Players -- your organization wants them feeling mutual. Amman. And then he had some good games last year. I just in making got -- there once. You know he's indicated any interest in doing so to -- he. He's a little bit. Help coming in from the outside he's not even outside really look. For me -- this tremendous in that role. It's -- can he do it every night and it might almost be. You know appeared to struggle at times during the first got here this may bring out the best in him. Not create his own shot which is harder for him than it used to be. But creating for others which is just tremendous that and -- create for others who might find that there's more room insult she too. For what it's worth Denny said yesterday Keon -- and while considering coming out of retirement Ainge said yesterday that the former Celtic guard is not an option. -- -- -- means it's not an option now or not an option ever but at least we said yesterday with a reluctant to try to move. Forced the point guard thing and Avery Bradley because it would somehow compromises defense at the other end. -- -- more it to some compromise with the team on days they just don't every -- it's not a creative player. And that's how he became. A good player last year as they stopped trying to force them on and and then simplify the game forum. And so he became the guy that it scored off the weak side made the cut to the basket -- occasional street corner and like you say to people dishonesty right -- I I don't you know. I think we're what that does is the -- and -- you can -- me equates to everybody else. When the when he's off the -- Jason Terry as you guys it's gonna have to lose. Do this you know he went before he went to Dallas he was supposed viewpoint card that -- didn't really work out here and -- -- -- But it. I remember seeing him during the NBA finals he made some terrific. Plays for -- he need to keep passing -- -- -- five. Very typical back and passed out that you executed for a treat -- that won that game. Can he do it all the time nobody can happen -- more of it. I am honestly if you want to talk about possibilities for the Celtics -- to -- to -- -- might improve here pierce. Might be more important as a playmaker and I I. I think Jason Terry now who's going to. Play better because ruled out can be crafted specifically for him he had the vehicle to clear now. Instead of having -- fit into the system this system more has to be built around him and maybe he'll feel more comfortable now maybe we'll see more petition Terry you. So your guess is -- nobody goes not pierce knocked on that nobody. All. I did I'd be solely to get to that game because it's. He's. That is what makes him great its job is that he's not afraid and so many of his rivals in the league are there really worried about. The backlash that -- That the GM it looked like he was the computers you know like he's not afraid of missing shot in this case he won't be afraid of making. The difficult call but it -- look at them I go back years ago they they were ready. They were right in the trade the right trade. And they just start now you may. -- make investments and getting ready to make the kind of betrayed him too -- And I just don't see that the Celtics with so many two and three year contracts on the roster and guys that have yet to prove that the work the money they're being paid. And then you take into account next year that the luxury tax is going up really high here -- that -- computer taxes going and then. The whole week is obsessed with that stuff. And and a lot of the topics contracts -- -- Beatrice contributor corn and he'd been through that period that window. Where the luxury tax is going to be -- snapper so. I I that they could be very difficult as suddenly as it and try to sell guys certainly are so popular -- -- week also to. You a final question for me do you have a theory on the maddening Jeff Green will there be a time when four out of five games easily treat. Yeah I think I honestly John I I cut it a big break. Between how we came to Boston trade for Kendrick Perkins -- And only heard about was. Oklahoma City was true contender Perkins because they needed an edge and he he. So now he comes to the Celtics know they're doing is complain that we don't have Perkins anymore and it's on him. He's never played for the team before he has to step and be the guy that was going to help -- stop LeBron and win the championship. That would that can alive and then. The heart surgery and last year and trying to recover from not playing for a full year and he got to these deals often. He that it agreed to conditions that few others who take. A while to recover emotionally and confidently -- and to not be worried about anything when I watched Jeff Green actually kinda thinking. The only possible forward summed -- best place its drive to the basket felt like he intentionally do that now. I think he's with the right coach a guy that believes in them is gonna get him stopped thinking. Eventually. And start playing the game warm water. Affirmation. You know some of the -- gay community can do it again. And again maybe maybe without Rondo on the floor and there's going to be a need. There's going to be less worried about how things are done more worried about getting done now and maybe this'll be more opportunities for him. Is Ian Thompson from Sports Illustrated thanks for the time always a pleasure talking basketball with -- we'll talk -- down the road. Ian talked to Dennis and Callahan AT&T hotline AT&T four GLT eased a little weird kind of way. If you're working for the future -- you don't -- anything you'll yes core group sort of -- Steve I'm telling him with Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce. Going forward and let them try to grow up between now and the end of the season and whether that's into the playoffs or not matters not. You're you're improving this young core group that all cited too sorry for your contracts. I guess but pierce isn't congress isn't. I still don't get the logic behind not trading pierce he even -- your point forward and in your best player at this point. What's your argument against him. Because you want via this new group of Celtics the evolution or group of Celtics to function under the pierce and Garnett as long as they can -- this entire year. -- what what hey hey that doesn't take into account what they didn't act if he doesn't think he doesn't think there's anything of value to come back that's going to help you. And -- his idea a new idea by heard correctly is that if you trade -- it would be to bring somebody and try to chew over the top and help you win some playoff games here and he doesn't think based on you lose appears what you get back in return we accomplished that I. Think if -- -- if we go past the deadline passed the 21 and they're struggling. And there in eighth place or ninth place or and place. With the young players will learn lessons from Paul Pierce 35 year old peace plan out the string. I mean he's giving good effort night in and I -- but that's going to be an -- but it was more KG thing according to one of them did they knew he. The Celtics Ainge doc ownership wants these new guys to lower under Kevin Garnett what -- Garnett would approve a trade to a content move. What if -- -- to LL have closely -- knows that better than anybody and flip says he hates change he would be dragged kicking and screaming at a Minnesota but he's got three years yet two -- -- -- -- Thanks and their -- rebuilding what they hit rock bottom that's all. Young guys in -- trial will argue shortly it would -- I'm -- Of course not yet but that could be enough -- require some going to be contender going to be a playoff team. And on the teams are -- Charlotte's not require going to be a good team. He's got a before and worked out well. He was reluctant to change last time he changed it worked great as we look at that say. You know what I was wrong last -- women dug my heels well. A lot of these trades we have in front -- -- include Kevin Garnett and all we really know is it would be up to him now would would be but -- may -- Maybe it's recruit him like to call its candidates would qualify that you know he was from there a contender and just get juices flow into -- there trade yet to see a lot. Big big big trading -- All the white guys and and and Brandon Roy who's currently -- he needs to and replaced knee replacements like now. He needs -- like now -- -- he's in better shape to Brandon -- is all right a quick to -- lines opened 6177779837. Steve Smith to the city 35. About a bright. Not reduce MIA outlook on what it right now.


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While it is true that Hamas was democratically elected to govern the people of Gaza, that is hardly the reason that Israel declared them to be a terrorist organization. It just might have something to do with the constant rocket attacks on towns in southern Israel, or their history of supporting indiscriminate murderous attacks on Israelis.
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weihenweizen (412) Charleston Area, West Virginia | May 2, 2015| Updated August 4, 2016
Descent selection of singles for Charleston, typically 200+. Usually 20+ different six-packs to choose. Usually 20+ refrigerated six -packs. Due to distribution you are not likely to find hard to get stuff. Drug Emporiums have some of the best prices in town. Typically has: Mountain State, Big Timber and Greenbrier Valley. Can find Bridge Brew Works on occasion. Now you can get growlers and individual cans.
jackl (718) Minneapolis, Minnesota | May 31, 2014
A tired-looking drug and dry foods store on the outskirts of Charleston. Roughly 75 beers available. WV doesnt seem to get great distro, so dont be too surprised to find not much more than stuff from Sam Adams and Rogue. Some common Belgians were also available. The real upshot of my visit was finding some local beer from Mountain State available in singles. Prices were cheap, service is non-existent. Overall, this is definitely a place to check out if youre hunting for West Virginian beer.
Drake (783) Milwaukee, Wisconsin | May 2, 2013
Well, I hadnt intended to stop by here, but I literally drove right by it, so... Big drug store, as the name implies, with limited non-perishable groceries. Nothing too special here and no rarities, but it does look like they had pretty much everything available to them brewery wise, had a ton of singles and prices were reasonable. No employees in the beer/wine section. I wouldnt go out of my way to go here, but it might be a decent place to pick up a tick or two.
JStax (492) Devola/Marietta, Ohio | August 24, 2012
Stopped in late afternoon on a Saturday. Their beer selection is all up toward the front of the store in the middle. Pretty much everything is available in singles. All the craft stuff is, anyhow. There isnt much here I hadnt found anywhere else besides the Bridge Brew Works stuff. They did have a few interesting looking big bottles of Sam Adams stuff. Pricing was very good. I didnt get anything, but had I not just come from Vintage Cellar in Blacksburg, VA, that might have been different.
thechandler (10) Charleston, West Virginia | December 9, 2010
Its sad, but Drug Emporium is among the best selections of beer in Charleston. They have quite a few single-bottle selection, probably 60+ as well as 20-30 four/six packs. More than likely if you can find it in Charleston, you can find it at Drug Emporium, and the prices are not bad.


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The Age of Ports vehemently presses on as we here at GR take up the pen, er
keyboard, once again to play the part of scribe. This time crossing the platform
divide is Midway's Arctic Thunder for the Xbox. We already beat the stuffing
out of this same title for PS2.
Let's see if the "X" makes a difference.
This version of the snowmobile race-and-battle game has hit store shelves and
the GR mailbox. And as the resident GR snowmobiler, it's up to me to see if
it captures the magic of (or is at least more entertaining than) it's PS2 cousin.
Obviously, it's a little too arcadey to simulate true snowmobiling. But after
spending some time with this rendition, I'm proud to say that things are looking
up for Arctic Thunder.
The arcade version was a success due to a big dorky snowmobile controller and
an equally dorky fan that blows cold air in your face while you play. Sadly,
the home versions contains neither gimmick.
Oddly, Arctic Thunder has not a hint of a story anywhere in the game,
on the package or in the instruction manual. On one hand, this is great - you
know they're not trying to fool you into believing someone intentionally let
a group of young teenage speed freaks loose with a bunch of modified snowmobiles
equipped with missiles, grappling hooks, and invisibility devices.
But on the other hand, WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON? I mean, give me something
to work with. Exactly why am I supposed to shoot this Atomic Snowball at the
cute female rider instead of, say, asking her out for a cup of hot chocolate
or something? Sure, it isn't Velvet
Jones Kart Racer or anything, but I don't see why I have to be
so violent to the ladies. There's just no background at all, and it makes for
a kind of weird experience.
Boys and girls, Arctic Thunder isn't winning any beauty contests, trust
me on that. However, it's a lot more pleasing on the eye than the PS2 version.
All the graphics and textures are much cleaner with increased detail, making
it easier to see what is actually going on in this frantic racer. But the lines
carved in the snow still can't hold a candle to those in SSX,
and while the character models look better, they aren't as rounded or as defined
as I would expect from such a powerhouse like the Xbox..
But what the game lacks in eye-candy it makes up for in sheer speed. The levels
literally blaze by, and thanks to the cleaner graphics it's now much easier
to see where the road bends for finding those sharp turns. There's no noticeable
slowdown, plus the framerate is solid and smooth.
In addition, everything will feel very comfortable and familiar. You race
around tracks with about 7 other riders picking up power-ups and generally trying
to blow the other guy off the track.
control is fine. Weapons are easy to use. The snowmobiles are responsive and
handle very well. Plus, you get to upgrade your snowmobile and rider as you
progress. They don't really make much of a difference and a friend can't load
his upgraded snowmobile for the 2-player mode, but it does add to the depth
a bit.
Upgrades are purchased with points you earn from placing 1st, 2nd or 3rd on
one or more of the courses. You can also earn points by doing different tricks
(performed by hitting different button combos) or knocking riders off their
The PS2 Arctic Thunder's graphics are so bad that that it's really hard
see a character fall and eat snow. Again, thanks to the graphical touch-up,
this Xbox version doesn't suffer from that at all. And if you haven't picked
up any power-ups, you're left with your puny fists of fury. This can be hilarious
- you can actually see your victim go flying from his snowmobile. It's pretty
Unfortunately, the arctic motif is often lost. More often than it should be,
you'll find yourself racing in heavy industrial areas. You'll race on snow,
metal girders, catwalks and other odd terrain. Even across platforms, the level
design remains disjointed and bizarre.
Thankfully, multiplayer is also improved by the enhanced graphics. It's a good
thing, too, because the Xbox Arctic Thunder allows three other friends
to join in this high speed frigid fracas. The four-way split is not that bad.
Of course, a two-way split is much more tolerable.
Xbox Arctic Thunder is simply better than the PS2 version. It's smoother,
looks a lot better and the gameplay has made a successful transition from frustrating
to decent fun. You'll still find more arctic thunder around an outhouse in Antarctica
than you will in this entire game. But it's worth a look and combat racing fans
could easily do worse.


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St. John's Episcopal Hospital and Healthfirst will hold a Happy Heart Open House for seniors on Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, from 1 to 3 p.m. It will be held in the hospital's Teaching Center conference room, located at 277 Beach 19 Street and Plainview Avenue.
Dr. Vitaly Kishiayavsky, family practitioner, will speak on "Healthy Hearts" and take questions. Healthfirst will also present information on Medicare managed care options. In addition there will be time for socializing, bingo, prizes and refreshments.
For more information about this event, call the Public Relations Department at St. John's Episcopal Hospital at 718-869- 7750. For information about Healthfirst Medicare plans, call 877-237-1303 (TTY 800-662- 1220).


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I've never understood why this isn't standard on luxury cars. A 12V 10W peltier is about $10. Stick them under the cupholders and have a switch to reverse the polarity for hot/cold. You can already buy a pelt. cup holder at Sharper Image and a pelt. fridge/hotbox at Pep Boys for $40.cup holders that keep drinks hot or cold
The GMT900 should have this offered as an option for the center console if you get buckets in the front. Then you can keep your beer cold in there during the day and keep a rotisserie chicken hot on the way home at night
If it's not production, than I'm not interested.
That GPS system is pretty snazzy.
It doesnt have a V12!
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It continued into the modern era in many countries around the world. In
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The Abolitionist movement emphasized Jesus' and St. Paul's
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that the two sides had equally effective arguments.
The Abolitionist movement grew slowly,
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condoned, accepted, and regulated by passages throughout the Bible, it was profoundly
immoral. The movement caused immense consternation at the time, as people realized that the Bible -- particularly the Hebrew Scriptures (a.k.a. Old Testament) contained many immoral passages when judged by today's systems of morality.
Slavery is still an active topic today, because:
Racism and other residual effects of slavery are still
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There is considerable evidence that slavery is still practiced in some countries,
notably in Sudan and Niger.
Extreme right-wing Christian movements, such as Christian
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There are currently two major religious, political and
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equal rights for women (e.g. allowing women to access positions of authority in religious institutions), and
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Throughout history, during debates over abolition, women's
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