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...rower, my musings on the psychological gap between the coach’s launch and a rowing shell will undoubtedly sound like a Hallmark card gone awry. Yet to me, my journey through rowing, progressing from slow, unwieldy, and largely unsuccessful boats on the Schuylkill, to quick, efficient boats on the Charles, to the coach's launch is the perfect metaphor for my journey through life. I've learnt that nothing ever gets any simpler, and experience is the best teacher...
...long, lonely hours of a night shift. Nor can it stem the drip feed of [an error occurred while processing this directive] cynicism that comes with relentlessly crawling over the skin of the city in the company of "fares" whose primary wish is to get somewhere else quick. When the wrong turns of Dave's life - the bad marriage, the strange and estranged son, the failed hair transplant - start piling up, the Knowledge can do nothing to keep his wheels on the road. Descending into insanity, Dave empties all his warped, dyspeptic rage into a hate-filled memoir that...
PLEADED GUILTY. Bernard Kerik, 50, ex--New York City police commissioner, whose quick responses in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks led President Bush to nominate him to be head of the Homeland Security Department before a variety of ethics questions forced Kerik to withdraw his name; to charges that he took gifts while in office without reporting them; in a deal that requires him to pay $221,000 in fines but serve no jail time; in New York City. Kerik admitted accepting while correction commissioner $165,000 in home renovations from a contractor who was seeking a license with...
...coming, we all need to do very careful financial planning. For starters, avoid those simplistic financial calculators on the Net. Relying on them can lead to huge financial mistakes. TIAA-CREF, for example, asks just five questions in its online Simple Life-Insurance Needs Calculator. Fidelity's Retirement Quick Check saving calculator is equally primitive. Next, think twice about using financial planners. Their software isn't much better. Most programs make you set your own future spending targets. Doing so correctly is terribly difficult given all the interconnected variables. And small targeting mistakes can lead to horrendous saving, insurance...
...franchisees are Europeans who also own franchises back home, but Colman hopes to expand his U.S. franchise base to 40 offices by the end of 2006. He's betting that Americans' endless appetite for convenience will have them lining up for dentistry that's quick and easy. Painless? He's working...