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...Square, there are some dining establishments that seem to have outlived many of their less-successful competitors. Casablanca, Charlie’s Kitchen and Grendel’s Den have been in business for decades. Patrons at these Cheers-esque restaurant-bars are dressed-down rather than dressed to impress...
...TRADING PLACES How far did Enron go to misrepresent its business? According to the Wall Street Journal, Enron in 1998 asked 75 people, from secretaries to sales reps, to relocate to an otherwise barren trading floor and pretend to buy and sell energy contracts to impress visiting Wall Street analysts. As the analysts trooped through, the Enron employees, who had hurriedly outfitted their new work spaces with family photos and other personal items, conducted fake phone conversations and tried to appear busy. When the tour ended, former CEO Ken Lay reportedly returned to compliment the employees on their performance...
Those who tell everyone every last detail of their weekend hook-up are trying to impress, to seem cool, to dominate the spotlight. For this reason, their love stories tend to get more elaborate with repetition. What starts out as a simple misunderstanding over a kiss becomes fodder suitable for Jerry Springer, with jealous roommates lurking behind corners and backstabbing friends trying to foil the plot...
...Committee's goal of winning a record 20 medals in these Games. (The tally from Nagano in 1998: 13.) In freestyle skiing's mogul and aerial events--bumps and jumps--wild man Jonny Moseley and the meticulous Eric Bergoust will be defending their respective titles. The mogul team is impressively deep. The women's bumpers, led by Hannah Hardaway and Shannon Bahrke, could sweep, or be swept, in an amazingly talented field led by Norway's Kari Traa. Overall, nothing less than a perfect run will win. That means big "airs," such as helicopters and other spectacular jumps. Moseley...
...News is like sitting inside a very patriotic video game. Thundering martial drums play over a Jan. 28 George W. Bush speech as the phrase WORDS OF WAR flashes across the screen, then zooms at you with the swoosh! of an attack jet. This is not news packaged to impress blue-America TV critics; it's NASCAR with Pentagon briefings. Call it crass or pandering--if you get your news from Jim Lehrer, you probably call it both--but it says, viscerally, that the news is worth getting passionate about. And perhaps because of its love of a good fight...