Word: shotting
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...truly mass experiences - Olympics, elections, the Super Bowl - still play out on TV, even if "TV" now includes computers and phones. As for the loss of being able to make small talk with the mailman over who shot J.R. - I'll trade it for Mad Men and the ability to skip ads with TiVo. We'll find something else to talk about. (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...risk for the taxpayers. The math calls for the government to take on most of the downside risk while evenly sharing the rewards with hedge funds, money managers and other buyers. In the loan-buying program, private investors would put up 7% of the capital for a shot at close to 50% of the gains. The ratio in the securities-buying program isn't entirely set yet and will probably vary, but it should offer a similarly favorable risk-reward profile. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Ossining, N.Y. - in all its outward signs, his life was commensurate with his role as the man who was, with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains," there was also failure and weakness at every turn. The men were poorly equipped for life; the women were treacherous; children died. (See the top 10 John Updike...
...city as well as other cities and small villages in the area, a reward for escaping across the narrow and heavily guarded shallow Tumen River that marks the border between China and the brutal regime of Kim Jong Il. But untold numbers of North Koreans have been shot and killed there as well, and as two American reporters on assignment discovered last week, the waterway can also be treacherous for journalists...
...excruciating tally, giving Georgetown a last-minute advantage.However, with defeat looming in the air, Harvard’s freshman superhero Jeff Cohen came to his team’s rescue.“We needed someone to make a play,” said Cohen, who did just that.Cohen shot an unassisted rocket into the back of the Hoyas net with only 22 seconds on the clock, sending the Crimson into overtime.“It was just an extremely clutch goal,” co-captain Max Motschwiller said. “It was a gutsy play by [Cohen...