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...premise is so frothy you could destroy it by blowing on it, but the show is a delight, driven by Levi's geek charm and Chuck's tentative romance with his fed overseer, Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski). The new episodes quickly jump back in, with higher stakes and sharper jokes, and creator Josh Schwartz hasn't let the strike stop him from developing Chuck's character. He's gone from nebbish-out-of-water to nerdily assured operative, capable of seducing an enemy agent over cocktails with high-IQ trivia banter ("... and that is the true history behind the croissant...
...there any sport I could still be an Olympian in? Maybe handball? Sure, the rules are a bit different, but I’ve been playing on and off since I was five! Curling? All it takes is a broom! Hurdling? Hold out your arm—I can jump over that...
Case in point: the Harvard University Police recently reported a 47-fold jump in liquor law violations on campus last year. Such a statistic might have made 2007 an exciting drinking/partying/bail-posting season—except that the number wasn’t true...
...Paribas Private Banking in Hong Kong, says central bankers face "a conundrum." Though he says there is "psychological pressure" to cut interest rates, Freris believes that concerns about inflation and the continued strength at Asian financial institutions will keep them cautious. Policy makers "aren't going to jump because the U.S. is having domestic problems," Freris says...
...foil squad to silver in Beijing this summer and All-Americans J.P. O’Connor–a junior wrestler and the toughest 149-pounder you’ll probably ever come across–and Becky Christiansen–the Crimson’s record-smashing high jump queen–make new runs at NCAA titles...