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Step Brothers Directed by Adam McKay; rated R; out now So how did this farce, about two severely immature guys (Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly) forced to live together, earn its R rating? Actually, we can't say. Gross-out jokes aside, this is a minor entry in the grand comic tradition of grown men playing children and idiots destroying things...
...World Series on the eve of the election. Obama would almost certainly attend some of the games and bask in the excitement of Chicago's first Subway Series in 102 years (though he might want to avoid visiting Wrigley Field, where his allegiance to the Sox could earn him a chorus of, well, Bronx cheers). A Diamondbacks--White Sox series isn't out of the question either--which would inevitably lead to one of those goofy, symbolic bets that politicians always make over sporting events. Of course, the stakes will be far greater than just chili peppers and pizza...
...legacy of Socialist rule: the 35-hour workweek. Late Wednesday, a government text gutting the left's decade-old labor innovation was voted into law, provoking cheers from rightist politicians that France Inc. could now better fulfill one of President Nicolas Sarkozy's key campaign slogans: "work more to earn more...
Obviously, hell, if he doesn?t earn it then he can?t be the starting quarterback. So you can?t say, Brett Favre has to come back as a back-up. Anyone who says that doesn?t know what the hell they?re talking about...
...they copy the information so carefully that the company can guarantee a 99.95% accuracy rate in the electronic processing of professional journals, economic statistics, industry records and other texts. While the salary and benefits for an American employee doing equivalent work might be $12 an hour, the Chinese workers earn about $4 a day. Some U.S. firm, have long used foreign data centers to supplement their labor force for one-time tasks. In 1972, Boston-based John Hancock Insurance hired Key Universal, in Connecticut, to computerize more than 10 million documents, some dating back as far as half a century...