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...good match - something they can rely on over a relationship's long haul. But still, there's something pestiferous about those ubiquitous guys. And when Marion hysterically denounces one of them in a crowded restaurant, their bleak idyll comes to a crisis. It does not help that visiting Jim Morrison's grave in Pere Lachaise is a turn-off for him (he's more of a Val Kilmer fan) or that French condoms are too small...
...Calzada estimates that half of all urban dwellers - about 20% of all U.S. residents - could benefit from the easyQube. While online retailers and shippers contacted by TIME downplayed the hassles caused by people not being home to receive packages - "it's in the low single digits," says Jim Cochrane, Manager of Package Services for the U.S. Postal Service, when asked what percentage of items get returned to sender - it's a real headache for many shoppers. "We had major problems with UPS. The items would not get delivered and sometimes the notices didn't get delivered," says Alexey Veraksa...
...propensity to challenge convention is one of the things that differentiates a hedgie, and it's something that humans are not necessarily wired to do, says Jim Leitner, manager of the Falcon Family Fund. Leitner spoke of this phenomenon at the conference and in Inside the House of Money, Steven Drobny's collection of interviews with macro hedgies. "Humans in general are biased to look for confirmatory evidence," Leitner asserts in the book. "When someone is bullish on oil, they tend to pick out the pro-oil arguments in whatever they read. Very few people train themselves to look...
...lawmakers nor their families financially benefit from those earmarks. It's that provision focusing on earmarks - measures that lawmakers have typically quietly inserted into legislation at the last minute to allot money for pet projects in their home states - that has drawn the loudest criticism from two conservatives, Sen. Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, and Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, as well as House Minority Leader John Boehner, who have derided the measure as mostly ineffective...
...favor on Tuesday and the Senate expected to push its portion through by week's end. "Our bill establishes workable rules for full earmark disclosure. Apparently a handful of Senators are desperate to slow down passage of the most comprehensive ethics reforms in American history," said Reid spokesman Jim Manley, who reiterated the Majority Leader's threat to cut into his members' precious recess time if the legislation is held...