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...been looking forward to Castro's fall for years, but this isn't what we had in mind." A U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL, on Cuban President Fidel Castro's tumble from the dais at a graduation ceremony outside Havana last week. Castro broke his knee and right arm...
Nevada isn't the only state fighting back. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, irked by Schwarzenegger's Boston ad, has countered with billboards in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego in which he mimics the Governor's arms-folded pose but wears a dress shirt and tie. The slogan: SMALLER MUSCLES BUT LOWER TAXES! MASSACHUSETTS MEANS BUSINESS. Says Romney: "I don't want to arm wrestle, but Governor Schwarzenegger upped the ante." Now, after vetoing a state minimum-wage hike, he's about to up it some more. California's billboard campaign will expand in the next few weeks...
...national economies. Such "price harmonization" was one of many economic virtues the euro was supposed to usher in: it would eliminate many transaction costs, put an end to bruising currency devaluations, allow savers and lenders to benefit from a bigger capital market and, overall, be a shot in the arm for growth, investment and employment. Now, after nearly three years, we can begin to ask, What are the euro's economic effects so far? The scorecard is mixed...
...many of the characters it portrays. John Clark (Richard Gere) wants to ballroom dance. In Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells us at the outset, “In a country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing.” Chelsom never explains what makes ballroom dance equally taboo in 21st-century Chicago. He tries to plug this plot hole subliminally instead by making Miss...
...while building up your arm strength is important, having huge shoulders is not entirely necessary. All that extra muscle just adds unwanted weight to the lightweights’ lean bodies...