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...play - it's the pain later on, especially at night, that first brings the patients in. Overhead activities like putting up books or stacking dishes on a high shelf give the same hard-to-pinpoint shoulder and upper-arm pain. Cuff patients start avoiding movements that make them exert force at a distance from their bodies; fanning a blanket out over a bed, putting a child in a car seat, opening a window. There are, of course, some devoted athletes, who first complain, as Mr. Rumsfeld did, that the pain and weakness is affecting their squash or tennis game...
...reaction calls into question the wisdom of Redstone's recent moves to exert more control over the company and especially its movie studio, Paramount Pictures. The unexpected decision to fire Freston, a longtime Redstone friend and lieutenant, comes just two weeks after the chairman surprised the entertainment industry and Main Street by kicking Tom Cruise's production company off the Paramount lot after 14 years, ostensibly for conduct unbecoming high-priced talent whose box-office receipts weren't as boffo as before. Reif Cohen, citing Freston's stellar record at the helm of MTV, predicted that moviemakers won't like...
...says he thinks China's patience may be wearing thin. "This missile crisis will be the beginning of the end," Huang predicts. "It is forcing Beijing to see [that] the consequences of North Korea's actions are all bad for China." Says Green: "I think China is going to exert far more pressure on North Korea than they have in the past, but will still be very concerned about sanctions or other tools the U.S. can use to destabilize North Korea. The Chinese are desperately trying to find that sweet spot in the middle." People have been scouring the Korean...
...Wouldn't this be a good time to make contact and try to exert some leverage...
...industrial power, the ineluctable impulse to expand. He used his presidency to discharge those energies in ways that left the U.S. profoundly changed. Again and again, he framed the questions we still ask. How much influence should the government have over the economy? How much power should the U.S. exert in the wider world? What should we do to protect the environment? The answer he liked best--More--didn't satisfy everyone. It still doesn't. But anytime we offer our own, we know that we do it with him looking over our shoulders...