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...Cross. He's determined to stay active, but a 100-mile bike ride three years ago damaged one of his knees, and a fall during a camping trip last year injured his back. Now he does yoga every day and says it helps him sleep better and feel less stiff when he gets up. "I don't think I'll ever stop...
...course, any such effort will be greeted with stiff opposition from yet another entrenched bureaucracy. Those are the agencies, departments and special-interest groups that profit from the existing system. There would be a spirited fight led by large corporations to preserve the Exim Bank, the Overseas Private Investment Corp. and the Foreign Sales Corporations, to name just three...
Credit-card holders who let their monthly bills collect dust are paying a high price for tardiness. That's the conclusion of a new Consumer Action study, which shows that banks have increased late fees 75% since 1995, to $21 on average. To avoid stiff penalties, according to Bank Rate Monitor, try a local credit union or a low-fee national lender like Cleveland's Metropolitan Savings Bank or Chicago's Pullman Bank & Trust...
...with the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, which the ABT commissioned and premiered in 1987. The lively piece has three movements and includes four main couples and a corps de ballet of 16. The choreography consists of numerous lifts and turns, and at times the corps looked chaotic and stiff rather than organized and fluid. The male corps dancers, in particular, were incredibly strong and their jumps incredibly high. The lead couples included both principal and corps de ballet dancers. Though each couple was excellent, the refinement and artistry of the principal dancers stood out in contrast...
...reason for not getting the subtle jokes and for keeping to myself in the film discussions that followed the screening. At the last minute, I thought better of advertising my Catholicism so conspicuously, yet I remained absent of any outward signs of Judaism. I expected at best a stiff welcome and a stiff goodbye from festival-goers who could sense that I was an unwanted day tripper into a culture that was theirs alone...