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...shoo-in. When Li Ning opened its Portland retail store to the public for an hour on Feb. 15 for its grand opening, sneaker heads lined up for five hours to be among the first to own a pair of BD Dooms, basketball shoes named after NBA point guard Baron Davis. Jay Li admits they lined up "not because of Li Ning but because we have a world-class basketball shoe." (It probably also helped that Baron Davis himself was in the store giving autographs.) Priced between $99.99 and $149.99, a pair of BD Dooms does not come cheap...
Brent distinctly remembers a story from seventh-grade basketball, in which he was playing point guard and didn’t take a shot the entire game, even passing up wide-open lay-ups in order to give his teammates the ball. After the game, his parents brought him into a room which had a sign that read, “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built...
...critical analysis." In other words, under a veil of blind nostalgia, Americans quickly become attached to a particular narrative as the one correct interpretation of a murky past. Challenges to this worldview, then, are often met with the most vitriolic of reactions, as champions of the established historical guard fiercely defend that which they consider "proper" American history...
...film tells the story of a geeky, goofy airport security guard named Kirk (Jay Baruchel) who meets and ends up dating a drop-dead gorgeous party-planner (Eve) who comes through his airport. Everyone around them tells them that it can’t work, because while Kirk is a “5” on the hotness-scale, Molly is a “10,” and two people of such diverging attractiveness could never make it work. Ritter plays Eve’s straight-talking, hostile best friend who is opposed to the relationship from...
...Newt Approach? I was surprised that you included an article by Newt Gingrich [March 1]. Isn't Gingrich giving advice on bipartisan cooperation like asking the fox for advice on how to guard the henhouse? He is the king of noncooperation and partisanship. There are people on both sides of the aisle who can offer advice about bipartisanship and have at least a modicum of credibility Sandy Stanley, MUSCATINE, IOWA...