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...this is a survivor show? It's more like "This is Your Life," with Oprah hosting. There are only two ways this can go from here: Tina gets a visit from her wholesome brood, or Keith and "Asparagus" shack up in a Sydney hotel - on camera! (The "unrated" version will be available by mail...
...Heck, Keith even proposed, in full-on cutie-pie mode, to his girlfriend, whom we'll call "Asparagus" to protect her identity. (After the ever-dunderheaded Keith blew the Immunity Challenge by dropping his lock in the grass - and followed that by clunking his head on a lantern - she may want to discreetly change her answer...
...Cotan, and by the tradition of the vanitas--images of objects gathered together to symbolize the transience of pleasure and earthly life. And then, particularly, there was Chardin, the 18th century French master of still life, whose benign and composed presence is palpable in Manets like the Bunch of Asparagus, 1880, with its almost miraculous rendering of the blue tips of the asparagus spears. (It sold, fresh off the easel, to a collector named Charles Ephrussi. Manet felt he had been paid too generously, and with his usual wit he sent Ephrussi a tiny painting of a single asparagus spear...
...turns out, I needn't have worried on either front. When it was time to eat, my classmates generously contributed carefully culled articles from their lunchboxes. (For those of you who've ever considered packing prunes, asparagus or green beans in your kids' lunches, it's important to recognize that unless some poor kid forgets her lunch that day, every single item will wind up in the garbage can.) And, in a delightful turn of events, my beloved lunchbox turned up two weeks later when my bus driver noticed a mysterious and unpleasant scent emerging from under a seat...
Wall Street's battalion of corporate sleuths has rarely been more in focus. Many of them make upwards of $1 million annually, some for doing little more than repeating the cheery stuff they hear over smoked salmon and white asparagus in the executive dining rooms of the companies they follow. They are so conflicted they almost never advise selling a stock, resorting to code to tip off clients when things aren't on track. For example, buy really means sell if the stock was previously rated a strong...