Word: fronting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...pull out a victory. But on Saturday, that’s exactly what the Harvard softball team did—twice.The Crimson traveled to Hanover, N.H. to take on Dartmouth in the first half of a crucial home-and-home series to decide the Ivy League North title. In front of a raucous Big Green crowd at Sachem Field, Harvard swept the twinbill, mounting a sixth-inning rally in each game to win by scores of 7-3 and 6-3, respectively.Freshman pitcher Rachel Brown anchored the Crimson once more, hurling a complete game in the first contest before coming...
...give him the breath of life; as the kiss gets more amatory, Slonina avidly cranks an invisible camera and cheap disco music fills the air - it's the first Cirque de Porno. There's also a cast member in a yellow shaggy-dog suit who trots to the front of the stage, lifts his leg and pees into the front row. Note to those with the $135 tickets...
...What will happen to independent stock research? It is an important question to ask, especially at a time when the ethics of financial firms are again front-and-center. Dozens of independent research companies-by some estimates, 60 to 70-have been selling their work to investment banks over the past five years. Under the terms of the settlement, the banks then make that research available to individual investors and the bank employees, like brokers, who advise them. The biggest providers of research to the global settlement are, by most accounts, S&P Equity Research, Morningstar and Argus Research...
...want to say this up front: I like “Lowboy.” It’s a good book. There was something about the quote I’m about to give you from Carr’s Times piece, though, that when I read it just felt true. He said—and here’s the quote—“It is, in all, a thoroughly modern, calculated public relations enterprise, but its ancient charms are remarkable.” That’s just it: “Lowboy?...
...Same-sex marriage is a disgrace to the nation and to God. When I was growing up, [a homosexual] would not have stood in front of me. I would knock him out." (The Times [South Africa], April...