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...they probably weren't some of my best efforts. But I always knew that if I had that parallel performing career, radio wouldn't be a real important thing for me. What was nice was having people pay their hard earned money to come in and have you entertain them for a couple of hours. That was much more important to me, always...
...authorities somehow pushed the investigation away from Syria and Iran in exchange for cooperation during the first Gulf War. Libya, the skeptics claim, was just a convenient political target at the time. The Scottish Commission considered and rejected this scenario. No one now expects that Western governments will seriously entertain the idea again. But by calling into question the evidence in the case, the SCCRC left the door open to the ever-popular and persistent conspiracy theories...
...stage battle with booze or drugs doesn't necessarily add depth or soul to their performances. On the contrary, the history of show business is replete with sad stories that are redeemed by disciplined hard work. Plenty of stars refuse to trade on their hard-knock lives; they entertain us, not by forcing us to wallow in their miseries, but by causing us to forget our own for an hour...
...have this implicit agreement that I get Diet Coke for life in exchange for my having to go entertain him and write papers with him,” Zeckhauser jokes...
...about 50 players present at the draft, held at Stony Brook University, and one of about 40 who were chosen.A number of teams had expressed interest in Flood prior to the draft, but the faceoff specialist already has a post-graduation banking job in New York, prompting him to entertain requests only from East Coast teams.“I knew that if I was going to get picked up by a team, it was going to be an East Coast team,” Flood said Friday while driving down to Washington’s team facility...