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...many pictures that followed (The Out-of-Towners, Save the Tiger, The China Syndrome, JFK), he played a businessman in danger of being betrayed by his own best instincts--the sad-clown face of America at the twilight of its imperial reign, the Organization Man whom the organization would crush. Lemmon in his maturity was Job with a white-collar...
...possible that I got burned at unusually busy moments. A good friend of mine does swear by Webvan, even though she lives right next door to a supermarket. It could just be that she has a crush on the delivery guy. Whatever the reason, Webvan's near-inevitable crash and burn is clearly going to be a great loss for many folks around here, just as the untimely passing of Urbanfetch and Kozmo.com - both of which delivered videos, ice cream and munchies to your door within an hour - made a lot of us feel like wearing black. I still...
...that Bonds will say so. In a virtuoso display of athlete-speak, Bonds is doing everything possible to talk down his achievements and keep the media crush at bay. "I'm not even thinking about Mark McGwire," he said before a weekend series against Mac's St. Louis Cardinals. Other variations on the theme include "You can get hit by a truck tomorrow" and "I've had hot streaks before...
...responds when asked if she would still practice if the government hadn't banned Falun Gong. A pause. A glance at her minders. "I think it's still better not to." That's the sound of freedom being squelched?and a government that has spared no means to crush...
...Sayyaf is Arroyo's hardest challenge yet: she's forced to deal not only with a gang of cutthroat kidnappers motivated by lucre and Islamic zealotry but also the needs of Big Brother in Washington, concerned about the fate of the three Americans. Arroyo wants to crush the "bandit-terrorists," as she calls them. "We'll give you the peace of the grave," she vowed after the rebels escaped an army siege two weeks ago. That's a good demonstration of the determination that is the bedrock of Arroyo's character?which transformed the former economist and bureaucrat into...