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...tears, and once Colby won the old-style Aussie-jailbreak Immunity Challenge by not dropping his lock in the grass, we had to hope it was him. (Rodger, interestingly enough for a 12-year bank president, retained absolutely none of the facts Probst dealt out in the challenge's setup, and basically stumbled around in the night scratching his beard and looking, well, looking like he really deserves to be called Kentucky...
...scored big in 1998 when Green Mountain, based in Austin, Texas, agreed to print educational material and offer churches $35 cash for each parishioner who enrolled. Formerly part of a Vermont utility, the company was sold to private investors in 1997. A cynic might call the setup a marketing V.P.'s wildest fantasy: priests endorsing a product in the name of you-know-who and then pounding the pavement. But that would not be entirely fair. Both sides are vulnerable, and neither has an advantage. It's the Holy Spirit meeting the 'invisible hand.' Ecumenical groups are adapting...
...clutches of evil. In one respect, Spy Kids shares a clear kinship to Rodriguez's previous films though its breezy, comic-book inventiveness-the playful "kids-save-parents" concept is every bit as paper-thin as the simplistic "he-came-to-settle-the-score-with-someone-anyone-everyone" setup that drives Desperado. And Spy Kids is nothing if not a culmination of Rodriguez's starry-eyed fascination with slick, vivacious gadgetry, moving on from the guitar-case razzle-dazzle to electrically-charged bubble gum, satellite-dish wristwatches and, best of all, a plump, banana-yellow mini-submarine that becomes...
...again, although this time Nonzee says he wants the action to be more aggressive, with more of a dominant-and-submissive relationship between the women. Again, the three minute scene seems to go on forever, with Timkul on top of Chung. Then comes a third retake, with the same setup; this time Nonzee prods even more aggressiveness from Timkul. The girls take this on board but seem a little disheartened that the slow, feminine sensuality they envisioned is giving way to flat-out canine thrust. This becomes the final take?because Nonzee has gotten what he wanted from the start...
...darn guy has a smile on his face. This, of course, is just Skilling's setup to tell a Dallas audience of SMU Cox School of Business types that the giant is still kicking, and will try anything - even trading "weather options" - to keep itself financially robust. Seems Skilling's brother in Chicago is a meteorologist who's gotten him into "financial settlement contracts," which are bought by companies - like malls or snowmobile makers, for instance - whose business is dependent on the weather. "We're even looking at the rainfall market," says Skilling...