Word: clue
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...level by the federal Office of Thrift Supervision, which mostly regulates the savings and loan industry. Plus, it was awfully hard for outsiders - and even insiders - to understand the gravity of the company's problems. "You can read through every financial statement in the world and have absolutely no clue as to the risks they are taking," says Leo Tilman, a former Bear Stearns strategist who now runs the advisory firm L.M. Tilman...
...reading this, the world didn't end last Wednesday morning--but then, no serious person thought it would. Two men with more of a cause than a clue, however, had sued to stop the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a new particle accelerator near Geneva, from being switched on, arguing that it could lead to black holes or other scary things that could destroy the earth...
...Harry Pfarrer looks much more successful. After all, he is played by last-matinee-idol Clooney, has been screwing Cox's icy-beautiful wife (Tilda Swinton) and recently emerged from 20 years in the Secret Service "without ever discharging my weapon" - which is as sure a clue at the firearm of the wall in the first act of an Ibsen play that Harry's gun will be fired. He has the patter down pat, but something, maybe his fascination with the floors in the houses he visits, tells you that this Clooney smoothie is following the dictum the Coens laid...
Another one-word clue: It was emblazoned in white on what looked like 50,000 deep-blue placards distributed through the enormous crowd listening to Obama's speech in a darkened football stadium twinkling with flashbulbs on a soft summer night. The word wasn't Obama. It was: CHANGE...
...PLAY THE GAME -- Send a text to a phonenumber in the guide book. -- Receive a code that reassembles a jumbled entry and head to the site it describes. -- A second text contains a clue, the answer to which can only be found at the site. -- Reply with the right answer. -- A new code points to the next site, and the hunt for the Ruyi continues...