Word: odder
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...have taken in about $450 million at the North American box office; and even his 2007 Yuletide flop, the egregious Fred Claus, did $72 million. An actor who gets people to pay to see the bad movies he's in: that's a good definition of a star. The odder thing is that the large, shambling Vaughn is a babe magnet; the early audience for Couples was 61% female...
...odder realities found by digging beyond broad categories of companies is that a number of firms related to the housing market have been doing quite well this year. Trex Company, which makes decking and railing out of reclaimed plastic and waste wood, is up 69%, to $14.35. Beacon Roofing Supply, which sells roofs for homes and commercial buildings, has seen its stock jump...
...trend toward more arcane and occasionally bizarre password retrieval questions. Sign up for an MSN/Hotmail account and you can choose from "Who was your best childhood friend?" "What was your grandfather's occupation?" or "Who is your favorite historical person?" The questions for a Citibank MasterCard account are even odder, bordering on the absurd: "Who was your archrival growing up?" "If you needed a new first name, what would it be?" and "If you could control your height, how tall would you be?" Even if a person can answer those questions, there's no guarantee the answer will...
...Colin Powell went on live television to inform the world--incorrectly, it turned out--about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction. That makes the Feb. 11 briefing by U.S. military officials in Baghdad--detailing Iran's alleged link to the carnage shredding U.S. troops in Iraq--all the odder. Cameras, recorders and cell phones were barred from the Green Zone session. Three U.S. officials anonymously made the case that the "highest levels" of the Iranian government have been directing the deployment of explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) and other weapons in Iraq. The EFPs, they said, have killed...
COULD THERE BE AN ODDER COUPLE? Laura Bush speaks at Bill Clinton's Global Initiative conference on philanthropy, forgoes Desperate Housewives jokes and talks about water-filtration systems powered by kids using merry-go-rounds. Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton go at it on a seesaw...