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...worst poseur romance move of them all: that uncomfortable “post-hook-up” thing, where some people just don’t know when’s when. This is only exacerbated by the fact that you’re sleeping on a Twin XL mattress, and you are all too aware that there is somebody sleeping next to you as you try to drift into sweet dreamland. You’re better off trading in Harvard Square for Kenmore or Davis, or heck, just go to Wellesley. But this misses the point entirely...
When the subject of all the anguish, “her,” woke and detached herself from a metaphorical mattress placed at the back of the stage, her high feminine voice appropriately sliced through the fog of angst created by her unworthy lover...
...grumpy store manager taking back damaged merchandise is your idea of a good return, you need to come out from under the mattress and take a little risk with your money. Investors are understandably cautious in an economy that is only muddling through, with war as the backdrop. Yet some of the smartest money--professional, private-equity money--is awakening from its bear-market slumber. There are intriguing early signs that private assets, crushed the past few years, will start rising soon even if publicly traded stocks...
...Gazza stayed in Guangzhou at one of the most opulent hotels in town, where the lobby showcased live white tigers pacing in glass cages. Training camp, though, was an hour-and-a-half away from the glitz of Guangzhou and it introduced him to a different China. The hotel mattress felt like it was stuffed with goal posts, the toilet overflowed and the only wildlife in the hotel was tiny, brown and had six legs. "It's supposed to be a communist country, where everybody's equal-like" observes Gazza. "But I reckon things aren't so equal...
...market encircling the St. Sernin basilica. Then there's the hectic, everything-goes market sprawling around the Place St. Aubin - fruits and vegetables, meat and poultry, fish and shellfish, cheese, bread and pastries, herbs and spices, jellies and jams. If you need shampoo, a crate of oysters, a new mattress or an African drum, this is where to find it. Then, since this is Toulouse, it's time for lunch...