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...removed from the emotional starkness and dry humor typical of Chekhovian productions. The powerful love story is narrated by characters who constantly pause mid-sentence, interrupted at arbitrary intervals by two clowns in blue and white striped stockings and punctuated by the ardent desire of the lovers to pour sand on each other...
...said last month that if you could break 10 percent in the polls, you would pour resources into the campaign. What have those poll numbers been?Larry Flynt: Our internal polling shows that we are continuing to poll in the single digits. To spend a huge amount of money to try to get elected based on those poll numbers would have just been foolish. But I never had any delusion of winning. It’s just that the recall in California offered me a terrific platform, because I had a lot of things I wanted...
Chase hot investments, and you might get burned. Investors typically pour money in at the top--think tech stocks--and mutual-fund companies play along. Now it's bond funds. After three years of solid gains, some experts are calling the peak, yet investors, spooked by stock losses, are still piling in. They moved $63 billion into bond funds this year, a stark change from 2000, when they withdrew $50 billion. Fund companies follow the money, notes Standard & Poor's. While 14% of funds opened in 2000 were bond funds, they are 33% of new funds this year, says FundFiling.com...
...Deputy Chair of the State Duma's Security Committee and an outspoken opponent of the war in Chechnya, warned against just such a response: "Putin seeks to answer the mounting wave of Palestinian-type bombing terror with more terror of his own," he said. "But it will only pour more oil onto the growing fire." Even before the latest bombings, Putin was ratcheting up the pressure. Going back on a pledge to reduce his forces in Chechnya, he sent 1,000 airborne troops and an artillery battalion there last month. Though checkpoints in Grozny had been dismantled in the spring...
...make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well. As he put it in the motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine...