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...grew in when he was a kid. The actor mentioned this to the makers of his new movie, The Hangover, and they built a subplot around it, making Helms's character a dentist who, in a gesture of drunken machismo, pulls out his own tooth. That's just one element of serendipity that helped The Hangover - a no-star farce about three guys who lose their best friend on a Vegas toot - break the bank at this weekend's box office. Two other lucky breaks: the recent absence of R-rated guys-only comedies, and the odd inability of Will...
...believe an answer lies in a combination of return to the most basic participatory element of our original constitutional design, projected to our citizenry and our world by our most modern technology: a reconception of the public American jury trial...
Professional tennis players call it "the Luxilon shot," and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal element is its topspin, which can dip the ball crosscourt in short angles so extreme that "the game has gone from linear to parabolic," as ex-pro turned coach Scott McCain recently put it. "It's like ping-pong out there...
There exists an inexplicable force in sports, a mysterious element that can be sensed by players and fans alike. Every so often, an enigmatic situation or occurrence drastically changes a contest, and no one knows what exactly happened. The force was present when Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner was stricken by the “Curse of the Bambino,” botching a ground ball during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. It was there when the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in the closing seconds of Super Bowl XLIII, ruining the Patriots?...
...operators that stepped in to take on SNCF's freight service have captured 11% of the market in just five years. That may not sound like much, but the smaller players are making money while the state-owned giant is not. "What's significant in this isn't the element of competition alone, but the more efficient business models new players brought to old markets," says Alain Bonnafous, a rail expert at Lyon's Laboratory of Transport Economics. "Better organization and increasing return on investment makes all the difference...