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...Williams play before he retired. The day was fine and fair, the car ride to Boston joyous. Our first-ever trip on the T was a thrill, and then we hastened to the Fens (see what I mean, about the ode?). Three hours in Boston, all pavement and buildings bigger than we had ever seen, affected our eyesight like a dark room, and so when we walked up the tunnel into the brilliant sunshine we were blinded by the field, an impossibly huge and bright emerald with a diamond eye. The Bosox stunk back then, and this...
...little extra margin of safety, choose lenses that are "polarized." This cuts down on glare by deflecting the sunlight that bounces off such smooth surfaces as sand, water and pavement...
...bringing the whole market with them. Singhania and three other brokers who had placed orders for the Big Bull defaulted on large payments owed to the exchange, leaving it nearly unable to meet expenses. At first the crash brought grief: brokers and investors on Lyons Range crumpled to the pavement, weeping. Then there was anger: a mob of brokers roamed the exchange's halls vowing to kill Singhania, who wisely went into hiding...
...person, through a vast chain reaction of threats, slaps, intimidation and violence, China's Communist Party has broken Falun Gong, the organization that amazed the country by claiming tens of millions of followers?and stunned the government by bringing, on a few days' notice, 10,000 practitioners to the pavement in April 1999 outside the compound that houses China's top leaders. As recently as last winter, dozens arrived in Tiananmen Square nearly every day to protest the crackdown touched off by that show of grit and numbers. By contrast, on the recent second anniversary of the massive April protest...
...search firms are beholden to the companies that pay them when someone--anyone--is hired. Your best interests are never their No. 1 concern. Count on no more than one or two viable interviews from a recruiting-firm lead during your entire search. Such companies are not pounding the pavement for you. In fact, your odds of finding a new job through a search firm are greatly reduced because there are more candidates for a very limited number of positions...