Word: agente
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...noble a standard as loyalty sets, there is simply too much fear, self-doubt, opportunism and ambition in our makeup to expect our frail species to adhere to it. How many loyal free-agent ball players can one name, or publishing executives, or authors? "I do" is a promise of loyalty that often lasts until the first Finnair hostess comes down the aisle. Carville notes that more people turn on Presidents than stick--though there are ways of doing both, as Peter Edelman of the Department of Health and Human Services proved when he waited for the passage of Clinton...
Which leaves us with a suspicion that won't please Leo, his agent or Hollywood: maybe DiCaprio is a superb supporting actor. He needs something besides the great awful world--he needs other imposing actors--to play against and within. He needs other eyes to gaze into besides the camera's: aDepp or Claire Danes. On his own, even a talent like DiCaprio isn't acting; he's play-acting...
...Lake District constitute perhaps the original Ironman sport) wrote, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Someday even my daughter, or her daughter's daughter, will mist over at the memory of the androgen-swollen, coach-garroting, endorsement-besotted free agent ridiculing his teammates after a tough loss. Like today's purists who long for the bunt, the pick-and-roll and touch tennis, they too will pine for the good old days...
...envy when he begins to close more accounts than his supervisor. This seemingly supportive manager quickly turns into an arrogant and jealous monster as he sees Seth beginning to succeed. Seth loses his way, falling for the secretary of the firm, Debbie (Nia Long), and gradually becomes the agent of ruin in the lives of his customers...
...having to decide whether to carry on with the program or suspend it - and face the possibility that the government will be sued by the personnel who have already received their jabs. While it has proved nearly impossible in the past to sue the Pentagon for such cases as Agent Orange and Gulf War Syndrome, there is the potential for claims against the FDA, which approved the vaccine. While the Pentagon and the FDA maintain that the only side effects are fever, muscle pains and dizziness - all of which are supposed to disappear within a few days - fears...