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...Urban Hermit By Sam MacDonald St. Martin's Press; 281 pages...
...Gist: When Sam MacDonald graduated from Yale in 1995, he didn't go chasing after his dreams. He went chasing after booze. And drugs. And food. By 2000, he weighed nearly 340 pounds and owed thousands of dollars in taxes, student loans and credit-card debt. Cue the "Urban Hermit Plan" - a wildly dangerous scheme to subsist on little else but lentils and canned tuna. MacDonald's memoir recounts the unexpected journey he took, morphing from "Fat Bastard" to "Urban Hermit," taking his readers from Baltimore to Bosnia and back again in a tale of "starvation, hard work and blind...
...could there really be reason to hope for a year-end rally at a time when the only precedents that seem to apply are the worst bear markets on record? "Mid-December to the end of January is known as the only free lunch on Wall Street," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at Standard & Poor's Equity Research. "This year could be different...
...Uncle Sam to the Rescue, Again...
...squad, and their combination of size and experience means that nobody will take them for granted in 2008.“It was no fluke since they backed up their run last year with winning the Atlantic-10 in the regular season,” Clark said.Massachusetts head coach Sam Koch earned Atlantic-10 Coach of the Year honors, while sophomore midfielder Ben Arikian was named the league’s best midfielder.However, if the Crimson is to go through to the second round, getting the ball past senior goalkeeper Zack Simmons may prove to be the most difficult task...