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...Unfortunately for the Crimson, Yale’s John J. Lee Amphitheater is the anti-Pizzatola. When Harvard comes to town, the place gets downright raucous. A verbally vicious student section that seemingly sits right on the court and the unsettlingly loud blaring of the rowdy band situated under the far basket combine to create a home court advantage unparalleled in the Ancient Eight. Harvard knows all about that, having lost seven straight games in New Haven, and Drew Housman knows better than most--the then-freshman point guard was maliciously heckled every time he touched the ball en route...
...video. It opens with Jeezy and R. Kelly turning the corner into an aisle of a grocery store. Not just any grocery store, mind you, but a largely monochromatic one, where all the products on the shelves are spray-painted black. Now that’s just downright cool. Is this a “black market?” Unclear, but a real Go Getta doesn’t ask questions. The rest of the video is littered with more half-naked video hoes, some over the top product placement, and a verse by R. Kelly further extolling...
...Some of the heckling was just good-natured football fun. But the mean-spirited stuff was downright unseemly for a city with Chicago's supposed reputation for Heartland amiability - perhaps a frustrated sign that Chicagoans knew deep down their football team wasn't as good as the Colts? - and it sounded even hypocritical coming from folks whose town carries its own Second City angst...
...chiropractors, osteopathic manipulators, prolotherapists, postural therapists, acupuncturists, even Therapeutic Touch practitioners. Each of these therapies proclaims the existence of force fields, bodily reactions, energies or auras that simply cannot be measured or observed scientifically. The "patients" who pay these docs run the gamut from the hopelessly deceived to the downright self-indulgent. But lest we look down too haughtily on NRWAT providers from the moral high ground of real medicine, we must admit that their patients come back again and again, seemingly happy with the treatments. And they pay them with real money--which seems, alas, to have become...
...Euroland are no longer a drag on the global economy. More significant is the uptick in confidence. Last year, those morose Europeans called off their consumption strike, and so consumer spending is up by around 2%. That may not be very impressive by Chinese standards, but it's downright profligate when compared to the tightfistedness of past years...