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...luckily for Jenkins, one of the more laissez-faire feminists of CodePink had slipped out of her handcuffs while in the police van and grabbed his cell phone from his pocket, using it to call the D.C. lawyer’s guild. A lawyer arrived shortly, and Jenkins and his fellow demonstrators were released...
...added value," insists dropshop CEO Bart Swanson. Moreover, for buyers put off bidding by a seller who has little or no positive feedback from other eBay users, drop-off services can offer peace of mind: many of the more experienced ones are part of a kind of approved guild in the competitive world of online selling. Typically, drop-off businesses will also exploit the eBay Shop service, which offers any serious trader his or her own dedicated Web address, and allows buyers to search each seller's own "shop" for listings. Officially, eBay claims that it tries to treat...
...lodgers' expectations rise, luxury purveyors are stepping up to the challenge. The 24-hour personal valets who attend to every detail for suite guests at Las Ventanas in Los Cabos, Mexico, are trained by the founder of the Guild of Professional English Butlers. Oberoi Hotel Group in India has a special department to research guest preferences before their stays. So when a customer who likes steam baths recently reserved a premier bungalow at Oberoi's Mauritius resort, he discovered upon arrival that he wouldn't have to bother walking the 20 yards to the spa because management had installed...
...several pyramids. They need a recruit to get inside the terrorist mind, and who better than Gary, a Broadway actor? While Gary infiltrates the insurgents, North Korea's kooky dictator, Kim Jong Il, is making worse mischief. He dupes Alec Baldwin and other leftish members of the Film Actors Guild (FAG, in case you didn't notice) into being co-hosts of a peace conference in Kim's palace. Their criminal naiveté earns the thesps decapitation, immolation and death by giant felines...
...PEOPLE OBSOLETE IN MOVIES? HAVE we seen the last of actors--actual human beings playing fictional ones--who perform on a set constructed by burly artisans, under lights operated by fellows with quaint guild titles like gaffer and best boy? Maybe we have. Maybe it's time. I mean, if there's one thing that holds cinema back from being a 21st century art form, it's people. So let's go with pixels. They're cuter, cheaper, better behaved. They can simulate funny sea creatures (Shark Tale), re-create 1939 Manhattan or Shangri-La (Sky Captain and the World...