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When someone threatens the life of the President of the United States, the Secret Service reaction is usually swift and severe: casually joke in front of an agent about taking a shot at the President, and you'll wind up in jail quicker than you can say Go. When members of Congress are threatened, by contrast, the response typically is not nearly as intense. Threats can languish in the clogged voice-mail inboxes of any number of staffers dispersed across many offices in different parts of the country. Capitol police must work backward to reconstruct caller-ID records, usually...
Industry Cassandras will point out that 3-D came on big in the early '50s and went away quicker. Audiences could decide that this too is a fad and tire of paying an extra four bucks to see the same movie but with goggles. Many movies are in no desperate need for 3-D: not The Hangover, The Hurt Locker or The Blind Side...
...loss in the first round of the CollegeInsiders.com Tournament left the Crimson’s seniors with a disappointing conclusion to their collegiate careers, and its rookies with a sense of what postseason basketball so often entails for Ivy squads—games on the road against bigger and quicker teams...
...They definitely told me that the game was going to be played at a higher level, that the guys are going to be bigger and stronger, that the level of play would be a lot faster, [and that] I’d have to make decisions quicker,” Conor explains...
...quaint, bygone era, when learning to waltz was part of one's social education, like etiquette classes and lessons in table manners. So take the ingredients of DWTS, the waltz and tango and rumba, put quarter-inch blades on the dancers, and get them moving at a much quicker clip. That's what is giving the sport its growing Dancing with the Stars-like power. Take it from a winner. "We've been saying it all year," says Meryl Davis, who with Charlie White won the Olympic silver medal in ice dancing for the U.S. "Ice dance is right...