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...would be picked first. That would be all too easy, a veritable coin-flip mystery between Emeka Okafor and Dwight Howard already played out by the thousands of sabermetric algorithms, coefficient quantifications and physical improbability arbitrage flooding the internet with pre-draft scrutiny...
Gibson and Moore--two sides of the same coin? Absolutely. There are times when the far right and the far left are so close in methodology as to be indistinguishable. And both movies are not just terrible as movies--crude, boring, gratuitous; they are also deeply corrosive of the possibility of real debate and reason in our culture. They replace argument with feeling, reasoned persuasion with the rawest of group loyalties...
...short, but sadly there's often nothing in them because so many other people share my problem. What's worse, because my eyes are aging, I usually exceed my round number by 2¢, minimum, forcing me, when there is money in the dish, to take more than one coin as the cashier looks on in disapproval. With gas prices still rising, expect those penny dishes to be replaced by Susan B. Anthony--dollar dishes...
...figure out what makes some of us so prone to obesity are taking a close look at patients at the other end of the bathroom scale: anorexics who starve themselves and bulimics who binge and purge. Could over-and undereating, scientists wonder, be two sides of the same coin, different forms of the same biological circuitry gone awry...
...unmoved by the Australian's argument, but now he's roused by a Canberra official's refrain of "I wish I had a dime for every time I've heard that one" in response to Dili's case. Galbraith asks a woman on his team to hand a 25? coin to the opposing side in a dispute that is worth perhaps 50 billion times that amount. Pulses race, heads turn, eyes roll among the negotiators; each side digs its trench a little deeper. This is petro-diplomacy, Timor Sea style. "It's like dealing with the Krajina Serbs (in Croatia...