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...line. Lake a scene from a surreal self-help movie, "Impatience" is neck and neck with the blue and red "Mid-Life Crisis." The motorcycles--mostly garishly-colored Japanese makes interspersed with the occasional squat, old Harley--are faster than most of the cars, occasionally breaking the 10-second barrier, and their starts are more impressive, the drivers in tight leather racing suits rising up and leaning far out over the handlebars like sprinters before...
Since then, the greatest barrier to implementing routine testing has been the counseling requirement, McCormick said...
...which accuses the clubs of encouraging criminal activity: If people didn't drink in the clubs, they'd go to bars or, more likely, they'd drink in the dorms. Do you really want the liability to land in your hands? Think of the clubs as a convenient insurance barrier and stop writing melodramatic letters to first-years that only contribute to the clubs' already over-blown mystique...
However, I find this seemingly dismal fate much more preferable than the other alternative for a Red Sox playoff team: getting swept. They are the only team to suffer a four-game sweep in the League Championship Series when it was the only barrier between the regular season and the World Series...
When the Oprah Winfrey Show went into national syndication in 1986, it helped democratize the world of talk shows; it wasn't quite the fall of the Berlin Wall, but an important barrier was breached. Here, finally, was a woman--a black woman, a plus-size woman, a woman with an attitude--holding the mike and holding forth. Says Geraldo Rivera, host of CNBC's Rivera Live and Upfront Tonight: "Oprah was the first host of any daytime talk show who looked and sounded like her audience...