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...therapeutic option. He can neither "defend nor explain" what he said, and "there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul," and on and on. "Can I stop now?" you can almost hear him pleading to his bosses at ABC. "No!" they reply with a crack of the whip. "More groveling! Get sorrier...
...Because let’s face it—this is a funny movie, but if you’re like me you’re going to identify with this film so hard that you’ll want some alcohol to blame the sobbing on. So crack open a bottle of your favorite local micro-brew and enjoy. 1. Drink every time someone is dressed in moody vintage clothing. 2. Drink that one time people in the movie drink bottles of Brooklyn beer. Because it’s like the movie is set in Brooklyn so even though...
...what he said, "there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul," he knows that "a mere apology" won't "end this," and so on and on. "Can I stop now?" you can almost hear him pleading to ABC, his employer. "No!" they reply with a crack of the whip. "More groveling! Get sorrier!" Big companies functioning as gaffe cops is one of the disturbing aspects of these rituals...
...climate, many developed countries have changed their legislation to crack down on bribery. One hundred and forty governments have now signed a 2003 United Nations convention against corruption. There are currently more than 100 foreign bribery investigations under way worldwide, according to Angel Gurría, the o.e.c.d.'s secretary-general. One of the cases with the highest profile involves the huge German firm Siemens, which is under investigation for allegedly paying bribes to win telecommunications contracts. The company said recently that, on checking its books for the past seven years, it has found $550 million in payments it could...
...keep in mind that selecting from a hat would arguably produce better results than using rational analysis to try to crack the Ivies’ unique Friday-Saturday code. We’ll be testing that hypothesis as the month unfolds...