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...make sense until you start reading, and some of the best writing comes at the beginning, in the chapters covering the meaningless, sun-soaked overture of spring training. There, sitting in the stands with the senior citizens in Sarasota, Fla., watching a trio of trainee pitchers share a joke, Angell confronts the hidden pain nursed by every bleacher bum: "We would never be part of that golden company on the field, which each of us, certainly for one moment of his life, had wanted more than anything else in the world to join." It's like being a Muggle with...
...roughly $3,000, off the sticker price. After allowing for dealer profits, that leaves a negative return for Ford. The Altima, meanwhile, earns Nissan an estimated $1,500 (beyond the dealer's profit), contributing to the company's fat overall operating margin of 10.8%. You know the joke about the merchant who loses a little money on each sale but says, "I'll make it up on volume"? Don't tell that joke in Detroit...
...Everyone in the audience was polite enough to assume it was a joke...
...British series that's become a cult sensation, though, so it's not a shameless clone of "Friends" if you let the Brits clone it first! Another reason for "Coupling"'s buzz is that the British version is a very risque sex farce - although, except for a condom joke, the scenes shown of the Yank version weren't even as envelope-pushing as many "Friends" episodes. If nothing else, the buzz around the show will be the best thing ever to happen to BBC America, which reruns the British version...
...joke that mutated into a hundred variations on the Web, a guest leans over at a White House dinner and asks Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair what they are discussing. "World War III," Blair replies. "We're going to kill 14 million Arabs and one dentist." When the perplexed guest asks why a dentist should be killed, Bush slaps Blair on the back and says, "What did I tell you? Nobody is going to care about the 14 million Arabs...