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...back, near the delivery-truck entrance, and gather next to the Dumpster. Yet Susan Castor, a production assistant for a cable-TV company, has accepted her thrice-daily trips to the Dumpster with surprising equanimity. "I'd just as soon smoke out here and not have my smoke bother anyone," says Castor, who describes herself as a light smoker. "I think it should be that...
Having taken the bother out of farming and changed it into high finance, Chicago then turned its attention to high finance itself, introducing futures and options so that investors could buy and sell pretend baskets of stocks. These baskets were a big hit among professional fund managers, who used the pretend stocks to hedge their positions whenever they were afraid they owned too many real stocks...
...What may bother admirers of China Boy is that Honor & Duty lacks the intensity and flamboyance of its predecessor. Still, it is a worthy achievement, and, as the wisest parents know, every child deserves to be measured on his own terms...
...rationale for this is clear: the council is hoping that students will not bother with all the hassle, thus providing it with money to dispose of at its discretion. Although the council may not have deliberately set up every procedural roadblock which students have to overcome, it has done nothing to alleviate the problems. In fact, it has a vested interest in maintaining this system in which students are effectively prevented from obtaining refunds...
...taken somewhat seriously. Doesn't this bother anybody? It's mob rule, just like our hypothetical post-nuclear-winter Chicago. It's also a power trip for the columnist, just to write blather and occasionally slip in things like...