Word: stinks
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...Tampa have done their time enduring bad teams and worse luck. But for the rest of the country, idly wondering where the Yankees are, there's a lesson to be had. If Tampa Bay can survive the indignity of changing its name from the Devil Rays to exorcise the stink of failure, and Philadelphia can bounce back from the shame of losing the 1993 World Series to Canadians, there's promise for our subprime nation. Rooting for these teams represents the triumph of hope over experience--and that's as American as baseball...
...they use could do more to control sweat. Enter Unilever's new clinical-strength versions of Dove and Degree. Ditto for Procter & Gamble's Secret, Old Spice and Gillette. Says P&G spokesman Jay Gooch: "At the end of the day, we want to make sure we don't stink...
...hitting rock terrain also caused a stink in the states recently. Hip-hop star Kanye West riled Bonaroo festival-goers when his 2:45 a.m. performance was delayed to 4:25 am. Kanye ragged against the criticism, writing on his blog, "This is the maddest I ever will be." Jay-Z responded in his spat in more measured terms, describing the Glastonbury controversy as "ridiculous" on BBC Radio 1's Rap Show. "It's 2008, what is that about? That's such old-school thinking," he said...
...main part of the beach, and a sign warns that the water issuing from it may be unhealthy. The ugly concrete drain structure is maligned by graffiti - "Rizzo [hearts] Jenny" - and gnats attack any exposed skin as soon as you set foot on Fletcher Cove sand. Big, bulbous, black stink bugs fearlessly investigate your feet as soon as you sit; if you let them, they'll crawl right up your leg. At the press conference on Sunday, Solana Beach public-safety director David Ott uttered words of wisdom: "This is a marine environment. It's the ocean. It's their...
...sole solution to interpersonal disputes is his fist), he is also profoundly sensitive and reflective. And, while hesitant to admit it, Day is intellectual. Day is full of self-loathing, at times even half-hoping to die: “Human beings, we’re the worst stink in the world, like a disease.” And yet he maintains, more or less constantly, a near-instinctual hope in his eventual rehabilitation and an almost unwilling determination to press on. It is this fact that makes it impossible to not like Day, not to sympathize with him. Even...