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...team, with an ultimatum: her name in tatters or her body in his bed. (Spoiler alert: he gets his wicked way.) And in The Ruthless Billionaire's Virgin, a shy opera singer experiences a "wardrobe malfunction" while singing the national anthem, spurring a brooding billionaire to march onto the pitch and cover her bare breast. According to Jenny Hutton, the series editor, "These stories have lovely romance, and they're really heartwarming...
...insanity of busing our own trays at McDonald's: "McDonald's is not a public park where we all need to pitch in to preserve 'the commons.' It's a private, for-profit establishment out to make money. The so-called market should take care of it. They just need to hire more people to keep the place spic-and-span, or else have customers vote for Burger King with their feet. Perhaps it was part of a secret plot: Hire fewer people in order to put pressure on the customer to look after his own garbage. At first folks...
...unlikely, however, that the crisis will allow Washington to keep LIHEAP at that level in the next federal budget - making it just as important, say advocates, that one or more U.S. oil companies pitch in alongside Citgo. President-elect Barack Obama pledged during his campaign last year to force something similar: a windfall-oil-profits tax that would effectively make Big Oil fork over an "emergency energy rebate" for low-income households. But as his Jan. 20 Inauguration approaches, Obama seems to be backing...
...When defending the merits of its strategy, baseball throws a different pitch. "It would take an awfully long time to grow to the value that being in 50 million homes is immediately going to provide," says DuPuy. "It makes sense from an economic standpoint, and plus, these companies are partners that will help grow the game, and at the end of the day, that's to everybody's benefit as well." Baseball's bet: in five years, it will have a 66% stake in a network worth $1 billion or more, instead of a 100% cut of a company worth...
...purported midnight incursion of Indian air force jets into Pakistani airspace Saturday brought tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors to an even higher pitch in the wake of the attacks on India's financial capital of Mumbai that killed 171 last month. Within minutes, the Indian jets were chased back by the Pakistani air force, say Pakistani officials, and retired air force commanders interviewed on Pakistani TV swore to defend their nation. The Pakistani air force claimed that Indian planes intruded as much as 2 miles (4 km) into the country, but the government says it accepted Indian assurances...