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Senior offensive guard Joe Traverso was tabbed as a first-team selection while senior offensive tackle Joe Mujalli received an honorable mention...
...offered a job as director of Reno's National Center for Courts and Media, a training facility for judges and court personnel, his wife hesitated. The move meant that Laura, 48, would have to leave her job as real-estate editor at the Chicago Sun-Times--not to mention their friends and family. But a few visits persuaded her, and now she edits an in-flight magazine. Their only worry about Reno, says Gary: "I'm afraid it will eventually become too popular." --With reporting by Steve Barnes/Fayetteville, Sarah Sturmon Dale/Minneapolis, Dee Gill/Fort Myers, Noah Isackson/Chicago and Laura A. Locke/Reno
...great news for the local economy--not to mention the construction companies building the new patient wings and the medical-equipment providers filling them. But Mark Morales, the company's vice president for planning and placement, has a nagging worry. He needs people--half of them nurses--to staff all those new floors, and he isn't sure where he is going to find them...
...moment of Thursday-night-lull weakness (not to mention moral weakness, according to the RIAA), I downloaded Clerks last week. I got through about an hour of its grainy black and white glory before conceding to the sullen stack of books that sat accusingly on my desk. Before long, though, I was sneaking back to the movie, just to watch Jay and Silent Bob dance in front of the convenience store one more time. Clerks had snared me for the night, but its magnetism had less to do with cinematic excellence than with the familiarity, the memories, that the movie...
...must mention, just in passing, another of cigarettes' metaphorical potencies. "Smo-kin'!" exclaims Jim Carrey's frenetic alter ego in "The Mask"; and we know he is referring to a different -king. Smoking is, at heart, oral gratification. There is, shall we say, a certain sexual implication in putting our lips around a long, thin object, ingesting its essence into the mouth, perhaps swallowing it, then expelling it. Put this way, the act of smoking is, literally, a blow job. And the ritual "smoke after sex" - is this not the reward for all the exertion of coupling? For some smokers...