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...Instincts kick in. Always be polite. Before gathering Kevin and our things, I poke my head in the radio booth to thank Chaz Scoggins for the tickets. "I've got to run," I say. "My daughter caught that foul." He probably doesn't know, yet, what I'm talking about. He probably thinks my daughter caught a baseball and, therefore, why am I leaving...
...stock market has always been a terrific leading indicator of the health of the economy. Though some experts like to poke fun at how Wall Street has successfully predicted eight of the past five recessions, anyone who ignored the market's warning last spring didn't chuckle for long. What followed offered the most telling demonstration of the market's predictive value...
...Despite this kind of thing happening, I’d like to think we are still one community,” he said as the students inside the building began to poke their heads out the window. “I’ll cling to that...
While Kingdom Come is no contender for next year's Oscar race, the audience often cannot help but give in to uncontrollable laughter. The Slocumbs constantly poke fun at the stereotypical Southern Baptist, each focusing on one facet of the stereotype, be it unemployment, religious zealousness or the southern accent. Furthermore, in light of all the arguments, secrets and exaggerated emotions, the film often even resembles a bad day-time soap opera that even the excellent cast (including Jada Pinkett Smith, Toni Braxton and Cedric the Entertainer) cannot salvage. However, although the primary goal of this film is humor, there...
...focus, though, remained on abortion and what she said was the threat to women posed by the policies of the Bush Administration. To that end she compared their social conservatism, with its attacks upon both the right to choose and the use of various forms of contraception, to "a poke in the eye with a sharp stick...