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...pint, in a movie so desperately maneuvered that it's possibly unfair to blame Danson for defending himself against it. Culkin plays Timmy, the son whom widowed Ray hasn't seen for three years, and he arrives just as his dad and two confederates are about to rob a coin collection. This they manage with a cleverness that belies their alleged incompetence. But the boy steals the loot, and will give it back only if Ray will act the good father for a week -- you know, ball games, amusement parks, miniature golf. Father and son bond, of course, and along...
...cashless society. Club Med founder Gilbert Trigano tried to create some cashless utopias of his own by asking his guests to pay for things with beads as part of their tropical vacations. But in everyday life, consumers until now have largely chosen to hold on to their coin purses, dollar bills and checkbooks, reflecting an atavistic, under-the-mattress reluctance to part with their purchasing power...
...based in Durban on the coast, told me of a woman at a public meeting who asked whether the ANC would really take over her house after the elections. Apparently, a man had knocked at her door, asked for a glass of water, and returned it with a R2 coin at the bottom "as down payment for your house...
...Some of the skills of Senate horse trading -- "you get my vote on bill A for your vote on bill B" -- are of no use, though, in building alliances at the court, where Justices attract support by shaping decisions to neutralize the doubts of wavering allies."Ideas are the coin of the realm, not trades," says Yale law professor Akhil Amar...
Then again, Yogi Berra did coin the eloquent saying, "It ain't over 'til it's over...