Word: poste
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...reasons. They have names like Vito, Vinnie, Angelo and Ritchie, to say nothing of her father, Frank (James Caan), who runs a family restaurant in Little Italy. That's "family" in the full post-Puzo sense of the word. But Vito (Burt Young), who is the godfather here, sees opportunity in this alliance--a chance to off-load some of his talentless son's paintings and do a little money laundering via Michael's auctions. Before you know it, Michael has acquired his eponymous Mob nickname, is burying stiffs in Brooklyn and, finally, wearing a wire for a comically clueless...
...asked over lunch two years ago whether he might want to design a line of home products for a discount-store chain, he paused. Ron Johnson, who runs the home-decor division for Target, suggested Graves stroll one of the company's 800 or so stores and place a Post-it note on every product that needed improvement. Replied the man who recently designed the award-winning Denver Central Library: "I'm not sure there are enough Post-it notes in the world...
Back in the Cold War, Washington relied on ideological rivalry between the communist leaderships in Moscow and Beijing to keep its enemies divided. But in these days of post-ideological, yet increasingly chilly, peace, Russia and China are linking arms against the U.S. Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin held talks Wednesday at a regional summit in the border nation of Kyrgyzstan, and both emphasized the need to build a common front against the U.S. Jiang warned of a "new display of hegemony relying on force (that) has already drawn concern on the international scene," while Yeltsin complained that "some...
...published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association - and as one might imagine, not many got out unscarred. Out of the 182 studied, 45 percent suffered illnesses that needed psychiatric care, including chronic depression and drug and alcohol problems. One out of every three had post-traumatic stress syndrome, replete with the sense-triggered flashbacks, angry outbursts and nightmares that were last widely seen among Vietnam veterans...
...target of a government antitrust suit that started last May, and one of its planes crashed in June while landing during a storm in Little Rock, Ark., killing nine people. But the airline can count itself as but one of many unwitting mules ? after all, according to the Washington Post, Colombian drug exports to the U.S. currently run at an estimated 165 tons of cocaine and 6 tons of heroin each year. That ought to make all airlines take a hard look under the seats...