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...later, I hear somebody shouting 'Does somebody have it? Does somebody have it?' I thought that was some fan. So I immediately started shouting, "I got it. I got it. Get the bleep off me." But it was a cop who was saying all this. So as someone is picking me up, I'm nudging him off me, like, "Get off me, man." The cop says, "I got you, son. I got you." And I think, "Oh, good, a cop." I couldn't really stand up. I couldn't really move my leg. So they pick me up, and they...
...romantic relationships, when I became ill, I went seven years without a single date. I was so tortured by my internal demons that there was no space for another person. And then I started flirting with this guy down in the library named Will, which he didn't pick up on. He left the law school, and [later] we met in the hall, and I said, 'Let's do lunch sometime.' So he called me up and invited me to lunch. The next day, he brought a feather from his parrot, and placed it on my computer. I asked...
...return is symptomatic of a bipartisan consensus in the U.S. that Iraq's problems could be solved if the Iraqis would simply do as they're told. Last Wednesday Hillary Clinton offered her advice to Iraq's parliament, saying it should get rid of Prime Minister Maliki and pick a "less divisive and more unifying figure." That echoed remarks made earlier in the week by Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Republican Senator John Warner later chimed in to say Maliki had "totally failed," and was unable "to deliver greater security and reconciliation...
...team sees fit, the $285 million fund will be distributed among development, production, and acquisition of films made in Asia, by Asian filmmakers, or about Asian subjects. They estimate that they'll produce 21 theatrical releases and another 10 straight-to-DVD films over six years. If local distributors pick up the films, the Weinstein Company will reap some of those profits, which they'll use to pay back investors. TWC will have first pick of what Asian pictures they'll distribute back in the U.S., and they'll buy those films with the fund...
...cork industry has been scrambling to pick up the pieces. Amorim, the world's largest cork-stopper producer, based in Portugal, where more than 30% of the world's cork is grown, has invested $58 million in improving its operations since 2000. But there are more than 600 cork producers in Portugal alone, and quality control is a challenge. "My enemy is not an [aluminum] wine-stopper," says Carlos de Jesus, Amorim's marketing and communications director. "My problem is a cork stopper that ends up at your table tomorrow and it could stink. The guy making bad quality stoppers...