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...comments are repudiated by other members of the E.U. now or not, the cat is out of the bag. After behind the scenes conversations about the aggressiveness of the U.S. approach, the views of a number of American allies are now crystal clear - America is spending itself into a hole which it cannot get out of, and the nation is on a course which will eventually lead to socialism. It isn't a big stretch, after those comments, to see that Topolanek may be a Republican Senator disguised as a Czech official...
...college can't book a full flight? Glotzbach says the possibility is remote, but Michael Casey, Skidmore's vice president for advancement, estimates that because 80% of the school's funding comes from tuition, any single student's absence could punch a $25,000 to $30,000 hole in the operating budget. And it's possible that the sophomore, junior and senior classes could shrink as well. Shorb has already received about 60 new financial-assistance requests from currently enrolled students, five times as many as in a typical year...
...handsome nebbish, a fellow programmed to be agreeable, soft, semi-cuddly, in a movie universe that not only doesn't value those qualities but sees them as failings. The actor has a furtive, slightly abashed niceness, the yearning of a square peg trying to fit into a cool hole. He knows what attitude he's supposed to display, but he hasn't quite the aptitude for it. (Read "Paul Rudd: Everybody's Buddy...
...pleasant person that night, as he sends out a mass apology text saying whatever happened “will NEVER happen again.” What could this amiable character possibly have done to anger all his friends? Did he bite someone’s face, leaving that gaping hole in his teeth? Did he ditch his colorfully-scarved yuppie friends for the strange Clockwork Orange-themed couple in his support group? Or maybe his habit of spitting at women simply isn’t that attractive during the nighttime? Who knows? It’s a mystery...
...interests in Washington. "The loss of these employees will weaken TARP companies." The compensation crackdown already has other private sector players thinking twice about partnering with the Administration to help unload the banks' toxic assets and get the credit markets moving. (Read "Freddie Mac: Government's New Black Hole...