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...exuberant and, by the way, wonderfully written novel, points in more than one direction. Which is how Barney intended it. He has an answer for everything and everyone. He even anticipates the man or, more likely, the woman who would accuse him of feeling sorry for himself: "Don't knock self-pity. There's a lot to be said for it. Certainly I enjoy it." You will...
...while Amherst may be more than willing to offer its services, Dingman says that undergraduate mothers will most likely always feel as if they have to knock on several doors before finding the help they need...
...Crimson has shown one weakness this season, it has been an inability to consistently knock down the open three-pointer, which would make opposing players think twice before pressuring Feaster...
...Ocean's Eleven (1960). The Rat Pack. Rat Pack movies are tough. Frank, Dean, Sammy, Lawford and Bishop: you try so hard to love them as much as they loved themselves. Ocean's Eleven is the prototype, and probably the best of them. Good plot (army buddies knock over five Vegas casinos), and Cesar Romero is great icing as kingpin Duke Santos. But it's stiffly paced and self-indulgent. Go ahead and see it anyway...
...world trouble spot. Since 1990, it has suffered from sluggish output growth, a stock-market depression and a credit crunch. Now chaos in Southeast Asia endangers Japan's exports and loans to the area. Japanese investors, desperate to raise cash, might someday dump holdings of American securities; that would knock down stock and bond prices and shoot up U.S. interest rates. Weinberg sees a 1-in-100, but rising, chance of that happening--but contrasts that with a 1-in-1 million risk a year...