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While New York, London and San Francisco are some of the most popular destinations, swappers need not live in major metropolitan areas or palatial splendor to luck out with great swaps. Exhausted urban residents who need a break from the hubbub may be more than willing to swap their fabulous condo for a lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere. "It may be a little bit tougher to find someone if you live in Nebraska than if you live in France," DiCaprio said. But it can be done. "Sell its virtues: kayaking, hiking over trails, trout fishing, some festival...
...House only serves domestic, or American-made, beer. A report in the Boston Globe claimed that the patriotic policy has been in place since the Johnson Administration and that Gates, an admitted fan of Germany's Beck's and Jamaica's Red Stripe, would once again be out of luck. Is this true? Does the White House only serve American alcohol?(Read the Swampland post about White House beer...
...movie, filmed in the fakeumentary style of The Office, sends Simon bumbling through Whitehall, the White House and the United Nations, where he has no more luck than he does in meetings with his constituents, which he compares to "being Simon Cowell, but without the ability to say, "F--- off, you're mental." Led into a radio discussion of a possible war against an unnamed Middle Eastern nation, Simon gauchely says, "Personally, I think that war is unforeseeable." Trying to worm his way out of the gaffe, he burrows in deeper when he tells the press: "To walk the road...
...Here, as in her two earlier starring roles, Heigl is an efficient professional who has no luck finding men. Her Abby is the producer of a Sacramento TV news show whose ratings skyrocket when the on-air team is joined by Mike (Gerard Butler), the host of a late-night cable program called The Ugly Truth. Mike is a macho man with a Cro-Magnon spin on sex, telling his female listeners, "We fall in love with your tits and your ass. And we stick around for what you're gonna do with them." Desperate...
Moreover, a manager’s decisions fail as often as they succeed, depending on luck or the smallest minutiae of a player’s performance. A manager might make the logical call to take out a starting pitcher after 130 pitches over eight and two-thirds shutout innings in a 1-0 game, but fans and pundits will cry foul if the next batter hits a home...