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...studio analyst, he's submitting himself to humiliating weekly weigh-ins in a bid to get back in shape. "I don't drink anymore," he says, over the phone. "Well, I only drink two days a week, and I restrict myself to a six-pack." Somehow, Barkley has dropped 13 lbs., though his proud testimonial is drowned out by chewing noises. "I'm eating cantaloupe." With prosciutto? "Shut up!" O.K., then...
...Mergers or not, until at least some of this happens, we'll continue to be vulnerable to a system that is always just a thunderstorm away from paralysis. So pack some patience and a plump book before you leave for the airport this summer. You'll need both. And have a nice flight...
Amidst all this talk of uniting, you've pulled us apart like a pack of wild dogs going after a Chateaubriand. Even the Clintons would have sent us form letters. You know: "Thanks very much for your application to be under-under secretary of clean socks, blah blah, afraid you're not a suitable match, blah blah." Sure, it would have been a rejection, but it would have had the presidential seal on it and we could have tucked the letters away to show the pups: "Look, kids, a rejection letter from the Bush administration. No, no not that Bush...
...official reason is squeamishness about the fate of the foxes. No principle is dearer to the English than the protection of animals, especially cute, furry ones. In a priceless understatement, a recent commission report on the practice concluded that the experience of being torn limb from limb by a pack of hounds "seriously compromises the welfare of the fox." But as the spirited parliamentary debate revealed, this principle is as slippery as a wet fox in a rabbit hole...
...employee of the Coca-Cola Co. for the past 14 years, sometimes feels a bit like a man adrift on a shrinking piece of pack ice. As corporate-affairs director for Coke's Chinese operations, he has been busy lately helping the company move its local headquarters from Hong Kong to the mainland powerhouse of Shanghai. Now that the move is complete, he and six other staff members are all that are left of a former complement of 140 people. In Shanghai, by contrast, Coke's staff will have jumped to a 1 million-sq.-ft., seven-story building...