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...jokes just a little too cruel. And yet Handey is able to mine everything for humor—even the prospect of manslaughter. When the narrator talks about his issues with running over hitchhikers, he asks, “Have you ever been driving and hit a strange bump and wondered, What was that? That was a hitchhiker.” Unlike a lot of pop comedians, Handey doesn’t just riff on alcohol and sex, although he can and does. He has a message of social justice to convey, even if it is broad, unfocused, and?...
...Allard said. “BC is a tough team. If you miss your pitches they are going to hit them. Give BC a lot of credit they really swung the bats well.” “We were definitely on a roll and today was a bump in the road for us,” captain Shelly Madick added. “I think this sort of woke us up to the level of play we need to be at right now if we want to win a championship.” BOSTON COLLEGE 6, HARVARD 4The...
...escapist fare like Marx Brothers comedies and monster flicks. Box office grosses rose during five of the last seven economic downturns in the U.S. - including the '70s oil crisis and the burst of the dot-com bubble in the early 2000s. It's not just a ticket price bump that accounts for the extra dough, either - the total number of movies people see in a year tends to rise in recessionary periods...
...result is grade inflation, especially in new products like CDOs. That's how banks and investors around the world ended up owning billions of dollars in triple-A mortgage junk. It also helps explain the growth of bond insurers, companies that used their own triple-A ratings to bump ever more bond issues into the top categories--even as their businesses ceased to be triple-A safe...
...athletes, not including football, which operates under a more complicated AI-based system, land within one standard deviation of the mean AI of the entire student body.Amaker cannot navigate around these regulations: If Frank Ben-Eze, the reported prize of his incoming freshman class, does not bump his AI up to 171, he will not be admitted to the Class of 2012 next month. Nor can he attend traditional top dog Penn—another suitor mentioned in the Times article—which had its string of three straight Ancient Eight titles snapped this season. Harvard can recruit athletes...