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...often part to emit bursts of spontaneous laughter. He tells jokes, though no one can quite remember the setups or the punch lines. He has two young sons (his daughter died 10 days after her birth in 2002) and a sparky wife who seems adept at summoning his lighter side. Still, it's difficult to imagine him indulging in frivolous pursuits. It comes as no surprise that he's the son of a Scottish preacher, a background that imparted what he calls "a sense of a moral compass," as well as a frugal lifestyle and an urge to evangelize that...
...left the match aching and sore, with a soon-to-be-lighter wallet, and no WWF-style belt to show for my efforts...
...Ruggiero responded.“You have to. Angela, you are fired!”Though genuine tears flowed during Ruggiero’s ride in the confessional car, U.S. National teammate and Harvard junior Caitlin Cahow said that the water works came on a bit of a lighter note when the episode aired on March 25th.“As soon as we got to the boardroom scene, Angela became visibly irked and started to blush,” Cahow said. “Her eyes started to tear because she was trying not to laugh...
...Luke Wilson, tackling the lighter side of film comes naturally. He’s played the rebellious frat-boy, the sometimes sappy romantic lead, and the brunette half of a quirky, floppy haired sibling comedy duo. But come this Friday, with the release of his new motel-trip-gone-awry movie, he’ll take on a new role: horror film star. “This is obviously not the kind of thing that comes my way quite often,” says Wilson of his role in “Vacancy,” which also stars Kate...
...offers companies seeking capital a chance to dip into London's deep investor pool under lighter regulations than those on competing markets. That's got U.S. rivals in a spin. As overseas firms bypass New York to trade on AIM - which now lists more than 300 foreign companies, one-fifth of them from the U.S. - it has faced accusations of lax standards. In January, NYSE CEO John Thain claimed AIM "did not have any standards at all, and anyone could list." A month later, Roel Campos, a commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock-market regulator, branded...