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...Asian-born players have come close to tasting glory in the majors before: Taiwan's Liang-Huan Lu finished one shot behind Lee Trevino at the 1971 British Open, and his fellow countryman T.C. Chen's infamous two-chip gaffe cost him dearly at the 1985 U.S. Open. And credit must clearly also be given - as Yang did on Sunday - to South Korean female golfer Se Ri Pak, who has won two majors...
...dessert chef, don't make dessert. You think you'll get credit for trying something new. You will not. Your dessert will fall apart on the plate. The judges will pay lip service, but in the end, if it stinks, it stinks. If, like Carla Hall in Season 5, you can whip up an apple tart in your sleep, then by all means work it. But the human heart is not powerful enough to forgive a bum pudding...
...director of quantitative analysis for PayScale, defends the exclusion. He doesn't think it's fair, for example, to credit his undergraduate institution (Swarthmore College) for the salary premium he gets for having a Ph.D. from Yale University...
...have come for revenge. For years, I've hyperventilated at restaurant "tasting menu" checks, forfeited 1,000% markups for bottle service at clubs, neared my credit-card limit for hotel suites, paid usury to strip-club ATMs and pushed far too many chips to the dealer. On this trip, I will get a hotel room for less than the upkeep on the room, eat a meal for near what it costs to serve it and - at least according to a sign in the Cheetahs dressing room berating the strippers for undercharging - get some kind of deal in the VIP room...
...were being evicted, through no fault of theirs, with a couple of days' notice when the house finally went on the market. People are now paying a premium to live in apartment buildings, which in Vegas are almost always owned by a corporation. Sure, short selling damages the sellers' credit rating, but they just bought a new house, so they don't care...