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...blunt-spoken high school friend Tomomi, who enjoys a Sex and the City lifestyle as a single woman working in central Tokyo, living alone and puffing cigs at noisy cafés, heighten Noriko's sense of entrapment. Her life is like a pachinko game: she's the silver ball, pinging between her once happy but now cultish family and her better instincts...
...romantic? Your prince has come to save you! He's a bit balder than you had hoped, but it's time to lower your expectations. Your executives are bolting, and you just puked up a hair ball of an earnings report...
AMERICAN SCHOLAR CALLED Robert Ball the "undisputed spiritual leader" of Social Security. Ball, who joined the program in 1939 (four years after its creation), rose to become its commissioner under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He expanded benefits, led the development of Medicare and drafted a bill proposing universal health insurance. Ball was pivotal to the program's 1983 bailout and as recently as last year was drafting alternatives to President Bush's privatization plans, which he detested...
...beef’s been squashed. The street divided us from the fans, but culture didn’t. By the time I got to the T stop, I couldn’t tell with confidence who had come from the concert and who had come from the ball game. Now sure, that’s partially a function of Boston being (relatively) cosmopolitan, but the intermixture also says something important about what’s happening in music today. Musical purity died a long time ago, and the mutual exclusivity of genres is a relic of an age when...
...shot that vaulted him into the win column. “You can’t rally against him like you used to,” Clayton’s roommate and teammate, junior Sasha Ermakov, said. “He’ll jump all over a short ball.” In years past, Clayton was known as a stalwart defender, capable of getting any shot back over the net and extending rallies into painful long-distance sprints for his opponents. But this tendency came at the price of hiding Clayton’s strong underlying game. According...