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...looks as though it's back to the drawing board for Gerhard Schroeder. The German chancellor, who has long sought to have a German installed at the helm of the one of the world's ruling bodies, thought he had a lock on the top job at the International Monetary Fund - after all, since its inception after World War II, Europe has traditionally picked the IMF's leader (America got to choose the head of the World Bank). And on Monday, following months of lobbying, Schroeder convinced the 14 other European Union member nations to throw their support behind Caio...
...where does this leave us? We have two players involved in an on-ice conflict that would not even have made the game notes if the stick was swung seven or eight inches lower. Yet we have local police pondering lock-up for McSorley. But more important than McSorley's fate is the relationship between professional sports...
...still works, depending on the stock's appreciation. If you have $500,000 in stock with a cost basis of $50,000, for example, it's a lock. The penalty applies only to the cost basis, in this case amounting...
Tony Johnson, by the way, said he would have voted Bush except that as an ex-con, he had lost his voting rights. A friend chugged by in a pickup, and Tony made like The Rifleman, pretending to lock and load. It seemed prudent at this juncture to ask Tony why he'd been in the can. Weapons charges, he said. "I had you in my sights too," he added, talking about my approach...
...cash on the street. The wane of Jack Daniels (and the rise of Evian) has yielded fewer drunken rages. Finally, although the prison-building boom sparked protest from those who insist we should spend the money on rehabilitation, no one can argue with cold reality: jails and prisons today lock up nearly 2 million people, and you simply can't knock over a 7-Eleven if you're reading Playboy in cell block...