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...Jump Rope at Work...
...question here in Beijing is, when is the President going to do his first rope line? Here's a guy who loves rope lines (shaking hands with a crowd held back from the dignitaries by a rope), but he still hasn't done one here. He had two opportunities today at Beijing University, and it's not clear why he didn't take them -- the security officials on both sides here say there's no reason he shouldn...
...season ended where the last one did, on a Saturday night at a Regional which found the Crimson at the end of its rope and one day shy of the likes of UCLA...
...Cable Guy may have been what made that movie, his previous venture into somewhat more demanding fare, a box-office disappointment. Even his broadest comedies have their moments of genuine pathos. For instance: the scene in Dumb and Dumber in which, having briefly come to the end of his rope, Carrey's character stares out a window and says, "You know what I'm sick and tired of? I'm sick and tired of having to eke my way through life. I'm sick and tired of being a nobody. I'm sick and tired of having nobody." Sharing...
Thomson points out that if one or two large Asian parties default on their derivative contracts, computer screens around the world can be hit within seconds and instantly threaten other contracts. "It's like a bunch of climbers on a mountain all tied by a rope. But if one climber slips and falls into a crevasse, he can quickly drag the other climbers to their end with little chance of time for rescue," says Thomson...