Word: arens
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...trying to be conscious of keeping all that chub on there? No intense exercise routines, or organic diets... I think it's easier to laugh at guys who aren't good-looking. I've always found it hard to laugh when I'm watching a handsome star. That's why I keep it all on - hell, I'm eating chicken wings right now, as we talk on the phone...
...Things aren't as dire on the American stock-car circuit. But without question, NASCAR, which kicks off its racing season with its most prestigious race, the Daytona 500, on Feb. 15, has stalled. More than any other major pro sport, NASCAR depends on corporate sponsorships to fund its operations. Those logos splashed all over a driver's racing suit aren't just for show. The sponsorship has grown to the point where the more corporatized circuit has alienated a portion of the sport's beer-drinking core. And as these companies pull back on their marketing budgets...
Experts say it's a positive start but far from enough for an agency considered to be at the heart of restoring investor confidence in the U.S. financial system. "These are good first steps, but they aren't any silver bullet," said Bruce Carton, a former SEC enforcement officer and publisher of the securities-enforcement report the Securities Docket. "These are all bureaucratic obstacles that never should have been there in the first place. It will certainly expedite things, but it won't catch a Madoff." Real change, he said, "is all about putting more people in enforcement and training...
...following him. Bush clung to his base from the start - and never budged. (Both men were re-elected; Clinton by moving to the middle; Bush by refusing to do so.) I doubt either man would repeat their strategy if they could do it all over again. While there aren't many centrist votes in Congress to build anything around anymore, there are legislative proposals that moderate voters will appreciate...
...latest showcase of how the Americas in the 21st century are as hopelessly mired in a toxic mix of U.S. insensitivity and Latin hypersensitivity as they were in the 20th. On the one hand, it was indicative of Washington's inability or refusal to realize that Latin Americans aren't as obsessed with the drug war as los yanquis are - and that they tend to feel humiliated by imperious U.S. conditions like those set on aid for Ecuador's drug police. Correa's chief complaint against the U.S. diplomat, Homeland Security attache Armando Astorga, was "the insolence to pretend that...