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...fees as high as they are, owners are tempted to put their best horses on the track sooner and retire them to reproduce earlier. Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown winner, had 21 career starts. Smarty Jones, winner of the Derby and Preakness in 2004, logged only nine. Rank-and-file racehorses start early too but have harder careers. Winter used to be off-season for racing in the U.S., but now horses are trucked to courses where the weather is warmer and the wagering can continue. What's more, U.S. fans have grown to prefer shorter, faster races, so breeders...
...typical Finder novel (he has published seven so far, with 4.5 million books in print) reflects three or four months spent deep inside a corporate culture. Like an anthropologist, Finder gets to know the natives, interviewing CEOs as well as the rank and file. For Paranoia, he lived among the brilliant rebels of Apple and spent a week at engineering powerhouse Cisco. Why do these folks open up? Simple. "People like to talk about what they do for a living," says Finder. That candor gives the novels an authenticity critics applaud...
...borders, and he has made no secret that he sees Abbas as a lame duck. The Palestinian leader is not trusted by the democratically elected Hamas government, without whose consent no deal is credible, and he is pretty much ignored by as much as half of the rank-and-file of his own Fatah organization. Even at the height of his powers he had been unable to act against the armed wings of Hamas and Fatah, and his powers have dimmed considerably since then...
...sure we’ve said this more times than we can count: “I really don’t feel like writing this paper, so I’ll just do something else!” And off we go, closing the Word file, stepping away from the computer, determined to find something—anything—else to do. Some would have you believe that no matter what other activity you decide to take up, you’re still procrastinating, and that’s wrong, shameful, and possibly detrimental to your positive state...
...unwillingness of audiences to forgive the band is inseparable from politics. Market research indicates the average country listener is white, suburban and leans to the right, and they need not lean too far to file away an insult against a wartime President. Still, as the President's support has eroded and growing numbers of Americans (presumably some country-music fans among them) have come to disapprove of both his performance and the decision to go to war, shouldn't there be a proportional feeling of forgiveness toward the Dixie Chicks...